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Ben Ho Wan Beng and Gary Lehmann, Breaking Defense: The Next Pacific War: Lessons From Wake Island For The PLA
China's increasingly aggressive rise puts the Pacific theater in play in a way it hasn't been since 1945. In this essay, Singaporean scholar Ben Ho Wan Beng and retired US Marine Gary Lehmann look at what a critical but overlooked World War II battle has to tell us about the potential strengths -- and weaknesses -- of the Marine Corps's new concept for waging the next Pacific war. -- the editors
Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO) is the new Navy-Marine Corps concept for using land units forward-deployed ashore to help win a naval war. EABO is intended to turn the tables on our adversaries’ Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) strategies, using island outposts to help US land, sea, and air forces survive and fight in the face of enemy sensors and long-range precision missiles.
According to the 2017 concept for Littoral Operations in a Contested Environment (LOCE), EABO proposes deploying relatively modest forces — companies, platoons, even single squads — in austere temporary locations, hidden from enemy sensors and able to rapidly relocate. This would confound enemy planning by forcing them to split their resources over a wider and more dispersed set of threats.
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