China's missile reach forcing US Pacific air power reset

China's missile reach forcing US Pacific air power reset

China’s expanding missile and surveillance networks are turning US airbases into high-value targets, forcing the Air Force to abandon its Cold War-era force design and relearn how to fight, survive and sustain combat power in a contested Pacific. That case is laid out most starkly in a Hudson Institute report released this month, which warns […] The post China’s missile reach forcing US Pacific air power reset appeared first on Asia Times.

China’s Missiles Are Forcing US to Shift From Static Bases to Mobile, Pulsed, and Distributed Airpower in Pacific

In war planning rooms across the Pentagon, a quiet revolution is underway. Faced with a rapidly modernizing People’s Liberation Army and an increasingly contested Western Pacific battlespace, US strategists are rethinking how airpower, ground fires and maritime maneuver can survive… The post China’s Missiles Are Forcing US to Shift From Static Bases to Mobile, Pulsed, and Distributed Airpower in Pacific appeared first on The Asia Live.