Admiral Philip Davidson, commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.
Recently, the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command submitted a budget report to Congress, indicating that the command plans to strengthen four U.S. military capabilities, and thus warned the Chinese Communist authorities that “the cost of using force to achieve objectives is too high” and not to attempt it rashly. The Communist Party media exclaimed that the report was in fact a “deterrent to the Chinese Communist Party.
According to Defense News, the Indo-Pacific Command recently submitted a budget report to Congress for the Pacific Deterrence Initiative, asking Congress to allocate up to $4.6 billion for the program in fiscal year 2022 and to spend a total of $27.3 billion over the next five years to implement the program. The report indicates that Indo-Pacific Command plans to spend $27.3 billion over the next five years to implement the program. The report indicates that Indo-Pacific Command plans to use the $27.3 billion to strengthen U.S. military capabilities in four areas.
First, defense capabilities. It plans to purchase more advanced missile defense systems and deploy them in the first and second island chains in the South China Sea to create a denser anti-missile network.
Second, surveillance capabilities. Establish radar stations in key locations in the Pacific Ocean and deploy more and more powerful radar monitoring facilities. For example, deploy tactical multifunctional radar at the base in Palau, a Pacific island nation.
Third, strike capabilities. Strengthen precision strike capabilities at key nodes in the first island chain in the South China Sea, and a dispersed strike capability that can “withstand enemy pre-emptive strikes. In particular, the report mentions the need to strengthen the deployment of precision strike weapons with a range of about 500 kilometers. Some media pointed out that, from the perspective of the U.S. military, a range of 500 kilometers can just hit mainland China.
Fourth, strengthen the logistics supply and alliance system. The report mentions the proposed construction of new training bases in the Indo-Pacific region, the addition of new communications satellites, improved logistics and maintenance capabilities, enhanced advance deployment capabilities for equipment, ammunition, fuel and other materiel, as well as improved infrastructure and building defense security capabilities and cooperation among allies and partners.
In response, the Chinese Communist Party’s Global Times newspaper exclaimed in an article that the report submitted to Congress by the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, although entitled “Pacific Deterrence Plan,” is actually “Deterring China.
According to the article, the report shows that the U.S. military is “filling in the gaps” in its operational rehearsals with China (the Chinese Communist regime) as its imaginary enemy, and plans to focus its military resources on critical military capability gaps, enhance the U.S. military’s land-based long-range strike capability and theater missile defense capability, and strengthen investment in expeditionary airfield and port infrastructure as well as fuel and munitions reserves, thereby enhancing the U.S. military’s ability to deter mainland China in the Indo-Pacific region.
Previously, Philip Davidson, commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, publicly stated March 1 that the U.S. military needs to increase its military capabilities and deterrence in the Indo-Pacific region because “we must convince Beijing that the cost of using force to achieve its objectives is too high” and to make the Chinese Communist authorities understand that the Communist forces are not militarily viable. The Communist military is unlikely to win militarily over the United States, so it should not be attempted lightly.
It is believed that the U.S. military has been increasingly inclined to believe that the possibility of the Chinese Communist Party’s annexation of Taiwan by force has increased in recent years, so the U.S. military’s Pacific Deterrence Plan is intended to combat the Chinese Communist Party’s attempts to “unify Taiwan by force” and its military expansion ambitions in the South China Sea, and to increase deterrence efforts against the Chinese Communist authorities. The US military’s main intention is to combat the Chinese Communist Party’s attempt to “unify Taiwan” and its military expansion ambitions in the South China Sea, and to increase its deterrence efforts against the Chinese authorities.
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