Source: United Daily
Author: Zhang Yanting
The United States has restored the "Exercise Cope Thunder" exercise in the Philippines. It is launched in the Clark Air Force Base and Barcelona Air Force Base in northwestern Manila.Afterwards, this is a compatibility with the international politics of mainland China.
It is generally believed that the military power of the United States in the Philippines has been shifted to Alaska since 1991, and the waters near the South China Sea are in a state of combat power.But if you look closely at the long -term layout of the United States, it is not true.After the US military's highest command system in this area, after being restructured from the Pacific headquarters to the Indo -Pacific Command, it still continues to launch various series of exercises in Southeast Asia with the name of anti -terrorism, peacekeeping, disaster relief;, Even for "navigation through training", let the Japanese Maritime Self -Defense Force's patrollers and destroyers arrive in the Philippine waters, thereby gradually establishing the connection and strength of the west countries to block mainland China.Therefore, instead of "withdrawing" the Philippines in the United States, it is better to be regarded as a measure of authority to make up for the reduction period of the US military budget after the Gulf War.
Since the 1980s, "Thunder confrontation" is the largest joint exercise in the US Air Force in the Asia -Pacific region. The United States will hold four series of activities at the Clark base for a year.Northern Australia.In recent years, in view of the prevention of preventer of sea and air forces in mainland China, the United States and the Philippines have begun to compile exercises of the bilateral air force. This year, it is re -named "Thunder confrontation" and returned to the Clark Air Force Base and the Subick Army Port high -profile.The island chain defense line that forms the island chain defense line from Kyushu in southern Japan, the Yakashi Islands of Ryukyu, and extending to Luzon Island, Philippines, also includes offense and defense around the Basilica Strait in the south of Taiwan; its concept is based on the thinking of the Cold War era, and then cooperates with the new "agile combat deployment deployment"(ACE) Geographical strategic layout for tactical arrangement.
This year's "Thunder confrontation" exercise, the US Air Force is not far away, and the F-16CJ anti-radiation aircraft squadron is sent from the Misawa base in northern Japan to launch the long-range deployment of air power; exercise to destroy the subject of mainland air defense radar,First focus on the "defensive type of air", and then launch the "offensive air" exercise, including attack on enemy aircraft and ground targets.The second stage of exercise will be held in July, and the scale is larger. The exercise area will also be expanded from the Clark Air Force Base to the West Islands of the Wesia Islands and the southern people in the central Philippines.The collar overlap.
The "confrontation" series of exercises held in the Pan -Pacific region have the deep meaning of specific tactics, strategic research and layout.Since the end of the Cold War, the United States' exercises in the world have always been aimed at "united allies and intimidated opponents", and according to their inertia, they will publish an event announcement in advance before large -scale joint exercises.After the amphibious offensive and defensive drill along the northern coastline of the Philippines, it was quickly moved to the inland Air Force Base, showing that the United States had decided to use the Philippines as the starting point of "returning to Asia Pacific" or even "consolidating the first island chain" to declare against mainland China., Continue in the South China Sea with its threshold.
The new form of zero -sum struggle through military deployment and diplomacy through military deployment and diplomatic discounts is staged near Taiwan. It is worthy of the rapid changes in the rapid changes in the sea ground strategy of the sea.
