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The top officer for Army forces in the Pacific region<\/a> challenged soldiers with a \u201ccall to action\u201d to look at the challenges in that area and to think hard about where they\u2019ll be in the next five to 10 years and what they\u2019re doing today to prepare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a virtual address to attendees at the annual Maneuver Warfighter Conference at Fort Moore, Georgia, on Tuesday, U.S. Army Pacific commander Gen. Charles Flynn<\/a> said that Chinese political and military leaders are likely to make serious choices on how to use their growing military power at some point in the next decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFirst of all, this century is going to be defined by what actually happens in the Indo-Pacific and Asia. It is the most consequential region at the most consequential time, and it has the most consequential adversary that has both the capability and the will, and it demonstrates it every single day to conduct operations to counter the United States\u2026 and what a free and open Indo Pacific represents to the world,\u201d Flynn said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The four-star wants soldiers to take a tough look at their own preparedness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThink about where you\u2019re going to be in the next five to 10 years\u2026and what that means to you, to the Army and to the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flynn is not alone in his concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said Monday at the Air Force Association Annual Air, Space and Cyber Conference that \u201cintelligence couldn\u2019t be clearer. Whatever its actual intentions may be I could not say, but China is preparing for a war and specifically for a war with the United States,\u201d CNN Pentagon reporter Haley Britzky reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flynn laid out a brief, pointing to specific map areas and highlighting Chinese government and military efforts that include building dams in Vietnam, forming islands in the South China Sea, engaging in predatory lending \u201cdebt traps\u201d with smaller nations in the Pacific to seize terrain, ports and other features in lieu of payments, and a series of defenses and alliances with North Korea, Russia and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New York Times<\/a> reported recently that the leaders of North Korea and Russia are in talks for North Korea to provide additional munitions to Russia so that it may continue its war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBy 2033 I believe that something is going to have to be decided by President Xi (Jinping),\u201d Flynn said. \u201cHe\u2019s 70 years old. And generally, by the time he\u2019s 80 he\u2019s going to have to make a decision about what to do with the modernization, with the reorganization, and with the military instrument that he\u2019s built and is building. He\u2019s stated it publicly, he\u2019s basically told his commanders to be ready by 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flynn then highlighted how the Army has ceded much of its history and capabilities in the Pacific region but is regaining that through a series of efforts, some of which he\u2019d previously shared with Army Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those include Operation Pacific Pathways, an annual, 40-exercise program that flows soldiers from various Pacific-focused and United States-based units into the region to work alongside partner and allied militaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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U.S. Army Pacific commander Gen. Charles Flynn receives a brief on the training objectives of exercise Talisman Sabre 23 at Lavarack Barracks in Townsville, Queensland, Australia, July 28, 2023. (Sgt. 1st Class John Healy\/Army)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Other work includes the expansion of the Joint Pacific Multinational Training Center, which offers combat training capabilities both on-site in Hawaii and Alaska and through an exportable model that can be set up and conducted in host nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though often considered more of an air and maritime command, Flynn has pushed back against that view for years now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026This (anti-access, area denial) arsenal is primarily designed to defeat maritime and airpower,\u201d Flynn said. \u201cNotice, however, it is not designed to find, fix and finish distributed, mobile, lethal and nonlethal fixed and semi-fixed land power armies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Flynn isn\u2019t going full Army green. The big green machine will still need some help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I say land power, I mean the Marine Corps and the Special Operations Forces and I mean these large armies that represent the region,\u201d Flynn said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By having these multiple options to thwart Chinese military expansion, Flynn said the United States and its allies have \u201ccreated a targeting dilemma for the [People\u2019s Republic of China].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lastly, the line of effort that Flynn told the audience concerns him most currently as it could present gaps should conflict break out \u2013 joint interior lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essentially the series of defenses that ring China with an array of formations, capabilities, weapons and more that stretch from the northern reaches of the Pacific through Japan and southward into the Philippines and hooks around through Malaysia and into Thailand and neighboring countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, Flynn noted, these \u201cinterior lines\u201d are growing through increases in partner military force capability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thailand recently ordered an entire brigade combat team\u2019s worth of equipment, enough to field 144 Strykers, Flynn said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Japan has increased its military spending each year for the past decade, with a 26% increase this past year alone and U.S. and Indian military exercises have also grown in scale and complexity in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to understand the place, the adversary, the adversary\u2019s capabilities and we can\u2019t get there fast enough ladies and gentlemen,\u201d Flynn said. \u201cWe have to understand what\u2019s at stake out here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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