{"id":718,"date":"2023-10-17T00:40:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T00:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/?p=718"},"modified":"2023-10-17T00:40:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T00:40:04","slug":"general-highlights-chinas-military-advantages-disadvantages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/?p=718","title":{"rendered":"General Highlights China\u2019s Military Advantages, Disadvantages"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WASHINGTON \u2014 There are three things that the Chinese military has that the U.S. military, allies and partners in the region do not have, said Army Gen. Charles A. Flynn, commander of U.S. Army Pacific.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have interior lines,\u201d he said. He noted that they\u2019re just 100 miles from Taiwan, and they have anti-access, area-denial means to keep opposing forces at a distance \u2014 such as missiles, aircraft and ships, as well as cyber and space capabilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe second thing they have is mass,\u201d he said, meaning they have a very large military force.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe third thing they have is magazine depth,\u201d he said, which would include large quantities of stand-off munitions.<\/p>\n

Flynn spoke Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, on a panel about land power in the Indo-Pacific region at the Association of the U.S. Army Annual Meeting & Exposition in Washington.<\/p>\n

The goal of U.S. forces along with allies in the region is to take time and space away from China to deny them key terrain \u201cand to keep our physical presence forward with hard power to deter a war from happening,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe goal is no war. We already have a war in Europe. We have another war that just started this past week in the Middle East. We do not need another war in Asia. That is the land powers\u2019 contribution to the joint force to prevent that from happening,\u201d Flynn said.<\/p>\n

The anti-access, area-denial arsenal that the Chinese military possesses \u201cis primarily designed to defeat our air power and maritime power. And, secondarily, it\u2019s designed to degrade, deny and disrupt our space and cyber capabilities. It\u2019s not, however, designed to find, fix and finish distributed, mobile, fixed, semi-fixed, reloadable, lethal and non-lethal land power,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe present a dilemma to them that they did not design into the A2\/AD arsenal that they built. And this has proven out in war game after war game after war game,\u201d he said, referring to anti-access, area-denial.<\/p>\n

The general went on to speak about the importance of the U.S. and allied military presence in the region to deter Chinese aggression.<\/p>\n

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While air and sea power are crucial, land power is, as well, he said. Flynn added that militaries in the region are composed of anywhere from 65% to 80% ground forces.<\/p>\n

\u201cLand power and the armies in the Indo Pacific are an absolute central part of defending [nations\u2019] national sovereignty and protecting their territorial integrity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Flynn highlighted steps the U.S., allies and partners are taking to deter China\u2019s aggression, including increased bilateral and multilateral training exercises, the U.S. Army\u2019s new training center in the region, and nations beefing up their defense spending and working together on improving interoperability.<\/p>\n

By David Vergun, DOD News<\/em><\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON \u2014 There are three things that the Chinese military has that the U.S. military, allies and partners in the region do not have, said Army Gen. Charles A. Flynn, commander of U.S. Army Pacific. \u201cThey have interior lines,\u201d he said. He noted that they\u2019re just 100 miles from Taiwan, and they have anti-access, area-denial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-army"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}