Interesting take by the US Army. Mobilize Land Power to Contain China’s Maritime Ambitions

 Note.  This will infuriate many of us that absolutely hate Force Design 2030 (I WILL NOT ALLOW THEM TO REBRAND THAT SUCKING PIECE OF SHIT).

via USNI

The Army has not walked away from its hard-earned lessons of the past quarter century. Amid refocusing on large-scale combat operations and employing its new multi-domain operations (MDO) doctrine, U.S. Army Pacific’s strategy seeks to empower regional allies and partners to defend their sovereignty and assert their rights under international law. Given the increasingly tumultuous security environment in the Indo-Pacific, regional militaries are rushing to bolster their capabilities—not just for war, but for operations short of war as well. Together with  partner land forces, the U.S. Army is revitalizing the utility of land power as part of a larger effort to “prevail,” as Admiral Sam Paparo decrees, against China’s maritime strategy.3

Just plain wow.  A well developed strategy while at the same time maintaining their traditional role?  A beautiful thing to see! 

Land forces are the bulk of every Indo-Pacific nation’s military, which seems uncharacteristic given the maritime geography. But land forces—including soldiers, marines, special operations forces, and other indigenous forces—historically have played decisive roles during peacetime and wartime by seizing, holding, and defending key land terrain.

Sounds like the traditional AND enduring role of the United States Marine Corps don't it.  Unfortunately its a role that has been walked away from!

 The U.S. Army’s MDO doctrine explores the role of land forces in maritime environments, emphasizing the need for integrated planning, the critical nature of land areas in a maritime environment, and the determinative outcomes only land forces can provide by controlling key terrain.8 Informed by this outlook, U.S. Army Pacific is applying land-based capabilities in novel ways. These involve not only mobile land-based assets capable of sinking ships, but also terrestrial sensors, high-altitude balloons, deep-sensing platforms, and upgrades to the Army watercraft fleet.

So the US Army does the rapid deployment/crisis response thing, they do the sustained land combat thing, the cyber warfare thing, anti-air (aircraft/missiles) and now they're doing the land based sea denial thing...a thing the USMC sold its sole to do.

Read it all here, but how long can a service survive if its sole reason for being is as a Stand-In-Force that is so big it will be found, fixed and destroyed in detail while SOCOM does the same thing and aren't even seen?