President Biden's defense budget fails to fund critical improvements to Guam's defense. That's a recipe for disaster in the event of a war with China.
ramps up its harassment of a U.S. treaty defense ally, the Philippines, and its preparations for a potential invasion of, Guam has renewed strategic importance. Unfortunately, the commander in chief doesn’t recognize the island’s importance to any future war with China.‘s recently submitted defense budget does not fund Indo-Pacific Command’s $430 million request for missile defense improvements on Guam. There’s a good reason that this is INDOPACOM’s top priority.
Such an attack would likely center on the PLA’s CJ/”long sword” cruise missiles and its Dongfeng-26 intermediate-range ballistic missiles. The PLA is churning out long swords that can variably be delivered from air, naval, and ground forces. Its DF-26s pose a similar challenge. Road-mobile and solid-fueled, they can hide from U.S. surveillance efforts, rapidly fire their weapons with little notice, and then hide again before moving and firing from another location.
But just as the Navy claims its aircraft carriers can maintain necessary proximity to Taiwan alongside effective defenses against PLA anti-ship ballistic missiles, the problem of scale looms preeminent. Namely, what happens when the PLA fires dozens of missiles utilizing dozens of independent satellites and command-control nodes against single targets? What happens when the primary targets of these missiles are Guam-based U.S. attack submarines who want to make it harder for the U.S.
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