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MDAA Alert:
Bipartisan Restoration of American Deterrence
May 29, 2020

Senator Jim Inhofe and Senator Jack Reed. (Photo: Senator Jack Reed Office Website)
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Dear Members and Friends,
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"Currently, in the Indo-Pacific, that foundation of deterrence is crumbling as an
increasingly aggressive China continues its comprehensive military modernization.
This not a partisan issue." - Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Chairman of the Senate
Armed Services Committee (SASC), and Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), Ranking Member of
the SASC, in an op-ed featured in War on the Rocks on May 28th [[link removed]].

"The Pacific Deterrence Initiative will not be a panacea. It will not solve every
military problem America faces in the Indo-Pacific, let alone the numerous non-military
challenges the United States faces there. It is clear that China presents as a challenge
that requires a comprehensive response that includes a focus on economic security,
international development, diplomacy, human rights and democratic norms, and multilateral
cooperation. Moreover, while the Pacific Deterrence Initiative is a regionally-focused
initiative, we recognize that the challenge form China is global in scale. But it
is an essential step to reorganize US thinking and resources around the key priorities
for the joint force, and restore the credibility of American deterrence in the Indo-Pacific."
- Senator Jim Inhofe and Senator Jack Reed in an op-ed featured in War on the Rocks
on May 28th [[link removed]].

The Pacific Deterrence Initiative (PDI) [[link removed]]
starts here in the United States Congress to be authorized and resourced in the
upcoming Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that is being
debated amongst Congressional members and staff.

The PDI starts here on the U.S. homeland territory of Guam, the most western U.S.
homeland territory in the Indo-Pacific region and closest U.S. homeland territory
to China.

The PDI starts with the recognition of the critical and strategic value that the
U.S. homeland territory of Guam represents in the larger overall strategic deterrence
posture of the United States. It provides key forward logistical support to U.S.
strategic forces like the U.S. Navy's ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) and
the U.S. Air Force's strategic bombers that the United States depends on for deterrence
and a credible first response to aggression in the Pacific region.

The PDI starts with convergence of bringing together joint effectors, as General
John "Mike" Murray, Commander of U.S. Army Futures Command, invites the U.S. Air
Force's Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) to the U.S. Army's Project Convergence
exercise [[link removed]].

PDI starts with bringing joint sensors and joint fires together on U.S. homeland
territory of Guam with a Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) dynamic to
bring credibility of a new American deterrence in the Pacific.

PDI starts with integrating existing deployed cross-domain weapon systems, both
offense and defense, in the United States' inventory to defend the U.S. homeland
and its Pacific allies from China.

The PDI then builds outward and upward with future cross-domain and integrated technologies
and systems in an architecture that will be the pathfinder for the new American
deterrence around the world.

In defending the U.S. homeland territory of Guam with today's joint weapon systems
would have to include persistent and 360 degree over the horizon coverage beyond
20 miles from under the sea through sea level, air and to space and across the
Pacific to the Asian continent, where there is a plethora of Chinese overmatch missile
capacity - including hypersonic glide and cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and
cruise missiles. Guam defensive systems can never be limited to just being deployed
on land and/or at sea, nor can they be limited in service stove pipe culture, command
and control systems, and linear weapon systems that are not integrated all together
to leverage the best sensor with the best effector. It is far too easy for Chinese
planners to target successfully with overmatch missile capabilities the U.S. land-
and sea-based defensive systems of command and control, sensors, and effectors located
on Guam and off the coast of Guam coming from 360 degrees and with cruise, ballistic
and hypersonic trajectories. The United States today does not have the capabilities
in place to defend the U.S. homeland territory of Guam from China. The PDI will
directly address that by the authorization and appropriation of policy and funding
to fix that ominous position the United States is in today.

U.S. defensive systems deployed for the defense of the U.S. homeland territory of
Guam today are for ballistic missiles from North Korea.

- One U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery for defense against
intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) that includes THAAD interceptors and
an Army/Navy Transportable Radar Surveillance (AN/TPY-2).

- One U.S. Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Destroyer for defense against IRBMs
that includes the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block 1B and SM-6 interceptors and SPY-1
Radar.

"The Pacific Deterrence Initiative will help deter Chinese aggression by strengthening
the credibility of American Deterrence. The Initiative will focus resources on efforts
to convince the Chinese Communist Party that there is no quick, easy, or chap victory
to be had against the American Military. A well distributed posters will complicate
Chinese Targeting of U.S. Forces and infrastructure. More capable missile defenses
at American bases will make them more difficult and costly to strike. Greater numbers
of combat-credible U.S. forces in the in the Indo-Pacific will make it harder for
China to size and maintain the advantage early in aa conflict. More resilient logistics
will make it hard to take U.S. forces out of the fight or delay reinforcements.
New land-based, long-range strike capabilities will provide a new source of resilient
and survivable U.S. power projection. The Pacific Deterrence Initiative will focus
resources on these efforts and others with the aim of injecting uncertainty and
risk int go Beijing's calculus leaving just one conclusion: 'Not today. You, militarily,
cannot win it, so don't even try it.'" -Senator Jim Inhofe and Senator Jack Reed
in an op-ed featured in War on the Rocks on May 28th [[link removed]].
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Respectfully,
Riki Ellison
Chairman and Founder
Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance
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