Lt. Gen. James Bierman, Deputy Commandant for plans, policies and operations, US Marine Corps, laid out challenges the United States Department of Defense faces in the Western #Pacific and moves the United States Marine Corps are making to address those gaps.
The three key challenges are “time, space and access,” Bierman said.
To meet those challenges, Bierman said, the Corps has focused efforts on its units both already within the U.S. Navy fleet and those inside of the first island chain and “weapons engagement zone.”
“Our allies and partners are all in,” Bierman said. “They are feeling the heat, they’re tired of getting pushed around in their own backyards.”
Partner and allied nations in that same chain are training alongside Marines in new ways, focused on detecting, targeting and striking enemy naval vessels.
“They’re very much seeing the problem the same way,” Bierman said. “Which is how in distributed naval terrain do you sense and make sense; do you synchronize and coordinate in combined operations. How do you establish the right linkages for command and control?”
As the Australian Army evolves smaller, agile littoral manoeuvre capabilities and the USMC, US Navy, US Army and other partners and allies increase training and exercising in the region, northern Australia's geostrategic importance will become further pronounced.
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