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MDAA Alert:
Welcome to the Jungle
April 23, 2020

A U.S. Navy MH-60S Knighthawk, MQ-4C Triton, U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk, B-52
Stratofortresses, and KC-135 Stratotankers stationed at Andersen Air Force Base,
Guam, perform an "Elephant Walk" April 13, 2020. (Photo: DVIDS U.S. Air Force photo
by Staff Sgt. Divine Cox)
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Dear Members and Friends,
.
When you walk the elephants [[link removed]]
in the jungle, you swim your hippos and roar your lions. While China was intimidating
the South China Sea from its artificial islands [[link removed]],
projecting power with its new aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, steaming through the
Miyako Strait past Taiwan [[link removed]],
and continuing its narrative [[link removed]]
on the coronavirus, the United States Air Force walked out its B-52 strategic nuclear
force on Andersen Air Base in Guam while the U.S. Navy steamed through [[link removed]]
the South China Sea.
"U.S. strategic bombers will continue to operate in the Indo-Pacific, to include
Guam, at the timing and tempo of our choosing. We will maximize all opportunities
to train alongside our allies and partners, to build interoperability, and bolster
our collective ability to be operationally unpredictable." - Air Force Global Strike
Command, April 17, 2020.
"Yes, we are absolutely adjusting our presence in theatre when it comes to bombers."
The "dynamic force employment" will allow for the U.S. Air Force and the broader
military to be "strategically predictable, and operationally unpredictable" - Air
Force Chief of Staff General David Goldfein, April 1, 2020.
The U.S. Navy, in unison of an open and free Pacific, steamed an expeditionary Strike
Group [[link removed]]
made up of the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA-6), Aegis cruiser USS Bunker
Hill (CG-52), and Aegis BMD destroyer USS Barry (DDG-52) through the South China
Seas.
Today, the United States and its Indo-Pacific allies rely on maneuvering deployed
forces to deter China and provide stability in abiding to international law and
norms. In the Pacific, heavy dependence is placed on the Navy aircraft carrier strike
groups [[link removed]],
U.S. air power, and Marine amphibious forces much to the same degree as it has since
World War II over 75 years ago [[link removed]].
Strategies of deterrence now have to change to continue the competition with China,
who has studied, copied, built, and deployed massive, complex and capable strike
capabilities from land, sea, air, and space to specifically overmatch and defeat
the U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups and U.S. forward deployed Air/Marine/Navy
bases located in and around the first and second island chains. [[link removed]]
China is unilaterally taking, building, and deploying anti-access/area denial (A2/AD)
on artificial islands in the South China Sea to further deny U.S. maneuvering capabilities
in the region.
The Marines are adapting and have put forward their lighter and more mobile force
concept last month in the Force Design 2030 report [[link removed]]
and recently to Congress. Admiral Philip Davidson, U.S. Indo-Pacific Commander,
and General Charles Brown, Pacific Air Forces Commander, are leading new strategies
to deter China by providing joint layered cross-domain solutions made up of sensors
and effectors connected by the Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) and
the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) that will be allied interoperable.
A vast capability that will provide collective data and solutions instantly giving
a tremendous edge on decision making to defend and deter across the Indo-Pacific
region.
Admiral Davidson submitted a $20 billion Indo-Pacific Deterrence Initiative proposal
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per request of the United States Congress last month to increase the Indo-Pacific
capacity and capability for new deterrence capacities against China. The proposal
emphasized the necessity of forming a better defensive radar in and for Hawaii,
including allies, exercises and deploying new evolutionary offensive and 360 defensive
capabilities at the edge of the most western territory of the United States, Guam.
Last week on April 16, the Ranking Member of the House Arms Service Committee, Congressman
Mac Thornberry (TX-13,) submitted a $6 billion request [[link removed]]
for the first year of the $20 billion Indo-Pacific Deterrence Initiative (IPDI.)
Portions of it would go to a new homeland defense radar in Hawaii and to 360 integrated
air and missile defense of Guam. This week Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas unveiled
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a legislation proposal to for $43 billion [[link removed]]
to counter China in the Indo-Pacific region. $28 billion is focused on the Coronavirus
and around $15 billion to regain Military advantage in the Indo-Pacific region and
increase U.S. Capabilities against China in this region. Those increased capabilities
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are: Naval Lethality - $3.9 billion, Air Superiority- $3 Billion, Ground Overmatch-
$473 million, Missile Defense - $1.2 Billion and Advanced Technology - $667 Million.
"It will greatly strengthen the United States' position in the Indo-Pacific, allowing
us to block China's goals of regional dominance, and ultimately, competition with
the United States" Sen. Tom Cotton, April 22, 2020.
Protecting the United States' position in the Pacific relies on strong force projection
from bases like Andersen Air Force Base and the Joint Region Marianas Navy Base
situated in the island of Guam, and the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii.
A dynamic and unpredictable Air Force over a vast Pacific relies on air bases forward
in the Pacific to sustain, project and add more effectiveness to its operability.
The Marines and the Army rely on forward bases in the Pacific in the first and second
island chains to sustain deterrence and rapidly project power. All of these forward
operating bases, including US Air Force and US Navy bases in Japan and throughout
the Pacific, are under direct threat from Chinese layered 360 missile overmatch.
These bases all have to have an integrated 360 joint layered air and missile defense
(IAMD) to protect and defend their deterrence and force projection capabilities
to hold China in check.
"The Chinese Communist Party will try to exploit the world's weakness in the wake
of a virus it unleashed. We cannot allow it to succeed." Senator Tom Cotton, April
22, 2020.
In the Jungle, it takes elephants walking, hippos swimming, and lions roaring to
keep the hyenas from taking it.
Welcome to the Jungle.
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Respectfully,
Riki Ellison
Chairman and Founder
Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance
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