Recently, the United States has continuously exerted its military efforts in an attempt to form a strong deterrent and create psychological effects on the countries concerned in an attempt to achieve certain ulterior motives. In order to achieve this deterrent effect, the United States has continuously formulated and issued various strategies related to it, such as proposing to carry out an "integrated deterrence" strategy, as well as actions to increase the intensity of military use, such as the appearance of US reconnaissance planes penetrating the Taiwan Strait, and deterrence in the form of the United States and its allies constantly engaging in new military exercises.
For example, in a joint exercise between the United States and Japan in December, the U.S. military will for the first time exercise long-distance airlift "Haimas" multiple rocket launchers in Japan, in order to simulate the rapid coordinated deployment and coordinated operations of the United States and Japan in the event of an unexpected situation in Okinawa and other places in Japan. In this regard, the Japanese media pointed out that the US-Japan exercise is based on the modern version of the "Pacific island-jumping" tactic, and it is the first time that Japan has participated in the "island-hopping" joint exercise. So, what do you think of this "first"? Why do you want to do this kind of island hopping drill? What is the purpose of the United States in conducting such exercises? What is the impact on the security situation in the Western Pacific? There are many questions worth pondering.
First of all, we should realize that such exercises are a manifestation of the recent "integrated deterrence" of the United States. Due to the lack of strength of the United States itself, on the one hand, it leads to the relative decline of the united States' strength, so that the United States feels the crisis of hegemony; on the other hand, in order to maintain the hegemonic position of the United States, while constantly increasing military investment, the United States constantly adjusts the deployment of troops, focuses on the use of troops, and at the same time, attaches great importance to the use of the strength of allies and partners for the use of the United States, which has led to the united states to build an overall power system and implement "integrated deterrence." In fact, this modern version of the island-hopping tactical exercise conducted by the United States and Japan is an important form and manifestation of the integrated deterrence carried out by the United States, and is a drill on how the US military and the Japanese Self-Defense Forces jointly use it.
The so-called island-hopping tactic is a new tactic carried out by the US military in the southwest Pacific region in the late period of World War II; when counterattacking the Japanese invading forces, the islands occupied by the Japanese army in the southwest Pacific region are not counterattacked one by one in a wave-like manner, but an island war is selectively launched, so that the seized islands can be provided to the Allied forces as bases, and the airfields on the islands are used to bomb the Japanese mainland and accelerate Japan's surrender. This tactical maneuver proved to be very effective and achieved the desired purpose.
The United States and Japan have several practical purposes in mobilizing weapons and equipment to Okinawa through air mobility this time: First, to demonstrate the integration of US and Japanese forces, and the overall force system of the United States is feasible and effective; second, the United States is capable of carrying out rapid military mobility in the western Pacific region, whether it is personnel or weapons and equipment, it can move quickly; third, it is to show that the United States and Japan are capable of coping with possible crises in this region and safeguarding the security interests of the United States and Japan; fourth, it is to show that the United States can completely let Japan act as an agent to serve the interests of the United States. The United States provides logistical support to proxies.
The maneuvered "Haimas" multiple rocket launchers of the United States and Japan in this exercise have the characteristics of high maneuverability, strong firepower, and good general performance. The system provides front-line forces with 24-hour round-the-clock support firepower. It can launch GMLRS-guided rockets. It is a low-cost precision-guided weapon that enhances strike efficiency and increases the range of rocket artillery, expanding the range of fire support provided by the "Haimas" to combat troops from 32 km to 70 km, and if the "Army Tactical Missile System" is used, it will have the ability to hit targets beyond 300 km. As everyone knows, the Japanese island of Okinawa is about 400 kilometers away from China's Diaoyu Islands. This means: On the one hand, it shows that the United States and Japan, through the rapid maneuvering of this weapon, are fully capable of carrying out the threat of fire blockade against China's Diaoyu Dao area by Japan's rushing force; at the same time, this exercise also conveys the message that if the United States and Japan preemptively occupy China's Diaoyu Dao, this kind of rocket artillery can provide strong firepower support for the defense of the island. In either case, such a move by the United States and Japan is a serious threat to China's safeguarding of national sovereignty and security.
The united States and Japan have used a fancy method to practice the case of responding to a military crisis in Okinawa, Japan, with ulterior motives and ulterior motives. This must be sobered up. It is a completely irresponsible practice for the United States and Japan to engage in such a move, or to stir up turmoil in the security situation in the western Pacific region, and it is bound to be punished by history.