![]() ![]() The US Marine Corps and US Navy developed the Force Design 2030 Expeditionary Advanced Base of Operations (EABO), Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO), and Ghost Fleet Overlord. A US Navy Black Hawk helicopter carries a supply load from a fleet replenishment tanker to an aircraft carrier. It is the biggest vulnerability dogging every plan the US military has come up with to counter China in the western Pacific. This makes it easier for the Chinese to hit the boats that transfer fuel, food, and ammunition to US Navy’s fighting vessels.ĮurAsian Times has touched upon this issue in several analyses. The western Pacific is characterized by the “tyranny of distance,” where vast distances separate the operational area of the East and South China Seas and the First and Second Island Chains. Logistics – A Bane for the US Military in the Western Pacific The thread saw other handles questioning the novelty of Roughhead’s warning, saying that what Roughhead said was nothing different and the Chinese (or any adversary) would do that.īut the ensuing discussion in the Tweet’s thread suggested that the alarm was not over the uniqueness of what the Chinese might do, but rather the persistent problem that might lead to a devastating US defeat in far east Asia. The tweet by AncientSubHunter a former USN anti-submarine warfare (ASW) specialist who had served on board the USS Nimitz and USS Theodore Roosevelt, sparked a debate. Roughhead himself was quoting a People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) Admiral who had admitted to him that the “(USN’s) logistics ships were a primary target (for the Chinese)…because if he can take out logistics, he takes out the lifeblood of the fighting ships.” ![]() Long acknowledged its inability to resupply its ships while China can comfortably keep fighting from the home front, US military commentators have raised this weakness while academics do not predict a favorable outcome for the US.Ī famous statement by former USN Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Admiral Gary Roughhead before the House Armed Services Committee in June 2020 went around on Twitter recently. This possibly indicates the US is preparing to clash with China in the Western Pacific. Logistics and sustainment in ‘long wars’ with a peer adversary have again caught the imagination of military planners. ![]()
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