From a military point of view, in addition to the land-based Tomahawk cruise missiles, there are also Dark Eagle hypersonic missile battalions, all of which are currently installed models, and the Tomahawk missiles deployed in the Philippines this time are also likely to be deployed at some point in the future. Therefore, the overall situation in the Western Pacific is increased because of the deployment of medium-range missiles by the US military.
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The first batch of medium-range missiles of the US military arrived on Luzon Island in the Philippines, and there are many highlights of this deployment, and there are also many problems in transmission.
First, this is the first deployment of the US military after withdrawing from the INF Treaty, and it is also the first deployment of medium-range missiles in the Philippines. There has never been a cruise missile with such a long range in the Philippines, so this is also a major event node for the Philippines.
Picture interpretation: U.S. land-based Tomahawk missiles arrive in the Philippines
Picture interpretation: U.S. land-based Tomahawk missiles arrive in the Philippines
Second, the US military's deployment of medium-range missiles this time is in the name of the Army, not the Navy and Air Force, which are good at fighting in the Western Pacific, which shows that the role of the Army in the Western Pacific has begun to improve, and we can see from the speech of Charles Flynn, commander of the US Pacific Army, last year that if the US Army wants to gain a foothold in the Western Pacific Operation, it needs to have the ability to control key terrain. So we saw that this time the US Army deployed medium-range missiles to Luzon, targeting the Luzon Strait.
Photo interpretation: The land-based Tomahawk completed its first test launch in 2019
At that time, I also made a video to interpret the operational characteristics of the Army in the multi-island theater described by Charles Flynn, which is also the theoretical basis for how the US Army operates in the Western Pacific.
In addition to China, including the Philippines and Japan, the United States also wants to tell the Philippines and Japan that the position of medium-range missiles indicates that the U.S. military has begun to advance its Indo-Pacific strategy and that after withdrawing from the INF Treaty, the U.S. military will redeploy intermediate-range missiles, which will inevitably make Japan and the Philippines continue to take risks and continue to become agents of the U.S. military.
Judging from the current risk of conflict in the Western Pacific, the US military's move is on the one hand to show Japan and the Philippines the so-called US combat effectiveness in order to better control Japan and the Philippines, and on the other hand, to provoke an arms race.
Picture interpretation: This is a land-based Tomahawk missile deployed by the US military during the Cold War
It took about five years between the US military's withdrawal from the INF Treaty and the deployment of intermediate-range missiles today, and this period was the period when the US military restarted the process of developing intermediate-range missiles. It can be seen that the US military deployed medium-range missiles in the Western Pacific, and was prepared to do so since 2019 when it withdrew from the INF Treaty, why it is only deployed today, because it took some time to develop land-based Tomahawk cruise missiles, and at the same time, several medium-range missile projects were abandoned halfway and delayed a little.
Picture interpretation: This is a drone anti-ship missile launcher displayed by the US military
From a military point of view, in addition to the land-based Tomahawk cruise missiles, there are also Dark Eagle hypersonic missile battalions, all of which are currently installed models, and the Tomahawk missiles deployed in the Philippines this time are also likely to be deployed at some point in the future. Therefore, the overall situation in the Western Pacific is increased because of the deployment of medium-range missiles by the US military. This article was first published exclusively by @川陀智库 and is not reproduced in any form. #文章首发挑战赛#