1. The US tactical offensive cannot cover up its strategic retrenchment.
The squadron has made great strides, and the advantage of the US military in the first island chain has been completely lost
Recently, China's surrounding areas have been extremely unpeaceful, and several major events have occurred one after another, with the United States, Japan, South Korea, and Australia conducting joint maritime exercises Xi the waters off the Korean Peninsula.
With a super-nuclear-powered aircraft carrier as the core, the US military sent ships from other participating countries to form a joint aircraft carrier battle group to deter the DPRK.
On 25 November, the US Navy's guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper intruded into the territorial waters around Ren'ai Jiao, and on 4 December, the US Navy again dispatched the littoral combat ship USS Giffords to forcibly intrude into Ren'ai Jiao.
It seems that the menacing US military cannot hide the fact that the US military no longer has an advantage in the first island chain, and uses tactical offenses to cover up the defensive posture and buy time for itself to retreat to the second island chain and even the third island chain.
2. The geographical location of the first island chain.
Let's take a look at the first island chain first:
The first island chain, the term sounds a bit abstract, but in fact it is easy to understand, "island chain" refers to a linear geographical form composed of a string of islands, why is there a first island chain? This has to start with the international political environment.
During the Cold War, an American scholar proposed a concept called the "first island chain line of defense". The term is used to describe a line of military defense that stretches from Japan's Ryukyu Islands to a series of islands around Taiwan, the Philippines, and Indonesia.
At the time, the United States saw the island chain as key to protecting its own and its allies' security interests in East Asia. Later, the U.S. military regarded the first island chain as an important military base to contain China's rise, and turned the first island chain into a fortress and fortress, becoming the first line of defense to contain China.
The U.S. military deployed the main force of the Army's 8th Army to the Korean mainland, the main combat forces of the Navy's 7th Fleet to Japan, and the Air Force and Marine Corps to Okinawa in large numbers.
Taking the Seventh Fleet, which the US military is building as an example, the fleet has deployed nearly 100 combat ships, including the USS Ronald Reagan nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, and more than 350 combat aircraft. With so many military forces deployed, why should the US military choose a tactical offensive and a strategic contraction?
Three: The superiority of the PLA has been established.
The speed of development of the PLA is really too fast, beyond the prediction of the Americans! The distance between the first island chain and China is between 200 and 1,000 nautical miles, and China has an absolute advantage from China's territorial waters to the first island chain.
The PLA Navy, Air Force, and Rocket Force already have the capability to seize air, sea, and information supremacy within 1,000 nautical miles, and are capable of carrying out multi-service joint firepower strikes against the first island chain.
Let's first take a look at the PLA's long-range strike capabilities, and some military experts have previously said when introducing the PLA's long-range strike capabilities that in the event of a conflict, all US military bases in the first island chain will be destroyed by the PLA within a few hours.
At present, the PLA Army Group Army is carrying out tactical strike missions within 300 km, and the conventional missiles of the Rocket Forces are carrying out campaign strike missions of 300 km to 3,000 km.
The DF-16 missile connects the DF-11 and DF-15 with a range of 300-1,000 km downward, and the DF-21 medium-range conventional missile with a range of more than 1,500 km upward.
The DF-16 missile is a short-range ballistic missile, which has a long range and high-precision strike capability, the DF-16 missile has a range of about 1,000 kilometers or more, and can cover almost all targets in China's surrounding areas and the first island chain.
The missile uses a solid-fuel propulsion system, which gives it the ability to launch quickly and fly at high speeds. In addition, the DF-16 missile is also equipped with an inertial navigation system and a satellite navigation system to improve the missile's strike accuracy and navigation capabilities.
The DF-16 missile plays an important role in China's strategy. As the core part of the conventional missile strike system, the DF-16 missile provides the squadron with the ability to quickly strike enemy targets.
It can carry out precision strikes in the early stage of a war or at an important moment, effectively weakening the enemy's combat effectiveness and strategic will. The existence and development of this missile has further enhanced China's defense and deterrence capabilities and helped the squadron maintain the country's territorial integrity and security.
A considerable part of the missile brigade of the PLA Rocket Force has been equipped with Dongfeng-16 missiles, the biggest advantage of this missile is the huge number of equipment, the missile brigade can hit the enemy's first-class targets by salvo, to achieve the effect of short-term destruction and oversaturation attack.
The United States now does not dare to deploy its huge military forces, including aircraft carrier battle groups, to the sea areas within the first island chain, and can only rely on the first island chain to engage in passive defense.
Second, the US military has withdrawn a large number of troops from the first island chain to the second island chain, indicating that the US military itself believes that the first island chain cannot be saved.
The constant military maneuvers of the US military around the first island chain are nothing more than tactical offensives to cover up strategic contraction and buy time for themselves.
Four: There is a possibility of conflict breaking out in **:
Of course, we are still at a certain disadvantage, and for the squadron, the Indian Ocean and the central Pacific region east of the second island chain are increasingly important in the strategic position of the country.
The Indian Ocean is related to the security of China's overseas energy strategic corridors, and it is easy to be blocked by opponents in wartime, and the central Pacific region is related to the depth of national strategy.
2023 annual inventory The squadron will continue to improve its long-range strike capabilities and control capabilities, and the navy, air force and rocket force must have a conventional strike capability of 5,000 kilometers, which is a rigid need of our army.