The United States has stepped up its arming of Guam and hyped up the "plausible plausible attack" of the People's Liberation Army, but the anti-missile plan has been laughed at generously.
The United States is already inseparable from the "China threat theory," and just recently, the United States hyped up the so-called "people's liberation army sneak attack" and used this as an excuse to step up the arming of Guam. So, is this "arming" of the United States really strong?
The United States is engaged in an "anti-missile program" around China, but it is going to laugh and be generous.
Vice Admiral Jon Hill, director of the U.S. Missile Defense Administration, claimed that Guam now faces "evolutionary threats," particularly from China, including increasingly advanced ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, new hypersonic weapons, and even potential threats from space, according to U.S. military media reports.
Some US media have also begun to hype "avoid a repeat of Pearl Harbor", saying that the United States is stepping up to upgrade Guam's defense forces in case of a "possible attack" by China.
It can be seen from Hill's speech that the UNITED States' arming of Guam is mainly in the anti-missile aspect. Hill said the draft U.S. fiscal year 2023 budget includes the Missile Defense Agency's ballistic missile defense capability in Guam, as well as a hypersonic missile defense capability program, while the U.S. Army is responsible for the cruise missile defense system, and the two systems have duplication in capability.
In fact, the US Pentagon announced last month that it would strengthen its missile defense against Guam in 2028. At present, the US military has deployed the THAAD system, the Iron Dome system and the Standard-3 interceptor missile on Guam, which have in fact made Guam part of the US global anti-missile system. But Guam's current level of defense is probably not sufficient to deal with a full-scale Chinese ballistic missile attack. The anti-missile system equipped by the United States to the Guam base has very limited practical effect.
The current anti-missile means cannot effectively intercept ballistic missile attacks, let alone Guam, and even the US mainland cannot stop them. Therefore, the deployment of anti-missile weapons systems by the United States in Guam is more of a deterrent effect. If there is a conflict between China and the United States, Guam will almost certainly be destroyed at the first time.
It is worth mentioning that although the anti-missile system sounds like a defensive system in name, it contains a powerful reconnaissance system, the most typical of which is the THAAD system deployed by the United States in South Korea, although the range of the air defense missile in the system is not far enough to threaten the aircraft over China, but its detection range can be deeply Chinese mainland, which is equivalent to installing surveillance cameras in front of China's home to monitor the situation at home at all times.
This kind of surveillance allows the U.S. military to spy on the deployment and training of the PLA in peacetime, and provides critical data if the U.S. military is going to launch an attack on China.
However, it is interesting that Guam has always been the rear area of the United States' deployment in the Asia-Pacific region, and the front line has always been located in Japan and South Korea, and now the US military has begun to strengthen the construction of anti-missile systems in Guam and treat Guam as a front line, indicating that the United States realizes that the first island chain has ceased to exist in name only, so the second line must become a first line. It can be seen from the fact that several recent large-scale military exercises of the US military have been concentrated near the second island chain that the overall deployment of the US military in the Asia-Pacific region is in a strategic contraction.
