War of two superpowers: As the US is preparing to withstand China

And it doesn't matter who wins the US presidential election - the Pentagon is preparing to fight with China. The Times writes about it. Early this month, 864 paratroopers plunged into the C-17 transport aircraft on the basis of Alaska and flew to the Great War training between the three volcanic mountains of the Great Island of Hawaiv. Only 492 succeeded. Some C-17 had problems with the door, and others had to land in advance.

Several parachutists who managed to do this dislodged ankles or have a traumatic brain injury. And one-19-year-old ordinary-began to fall quickly when his parachute was not revealed. However, the fall of the second grade Erica Party from a height of 365 meters has also become a strict verification of reality, as the US Army should be transformed for war with China. Pentagon calls it the war of great powers.

And it will be a war of nuclear superpowers, with the possible involvement of other nuclear opponents, including North Korea and Russia. And the US is undergoing huge losses. Such a war will be waged on earth, at sea, in the air and in space. So the army trains for this purpose. Former President Donald J. Trump and Vice -Cresident Kamala Harris outlined completely different approaches to Russia's war in Ukraine.

Their approaches to the riots in the Middle East are expected to also differ, at least rhetorically. Now that the chances of war with China are growing, the Great and Irreversible Army of the United States is trying to transform after two decades of struggle against terrorism in Afghanistan and the Middle East. Unlike the Taliban or other rebels, China will have satellites who will be able to see the formation of troops from the sky. The army should, in fact, learn to fly under the radar.

To check the ability of the army to deploy quickly and fight the Pacific Islands, soldiers of the 25th Infantry Division, together with the Japanese, Australian, Indonesian and other allies troops, the Allies descended on ropes in gorges in the jungle, and then made ups. About 28 miles from the Pearl Harbora, the crew of army transport ships worked out different ways of unloading military equipment and troops that they will need in the event of a Pacific.

And near the northern coast of the Oahu, soldiers worked on masking a multi-purpose control and control point equipped with computer stations with large screens, so that it was almost indistinguishable from dark green forest. Although Taiwan has his own defense, military experts say it is difficult to imagine how the island will be able to reflect the Chinese invasion without the help of the US.

Therefore, whoever is president of the United States will not be able to stay away if the United States wants to keep their domination. "I believe that a successful invasion of Taiwan will cause huge resonance throughout the region. China is likely to be dominant military force in the region rather than the United States, and this will cause a number of consequences of second and third order," said Seth Jones, older Vice President of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

For example, the Pacific allies of America may lose faith in restraining the United States and try to make security agreements with China. Japan and South Korea - both contractual allies of the United States - can join the nuclear club to protect themselves from China.

During the Second World War, when the island was called Formosis and was occupied by Japan, the Joint Committee of Staffing developed the Kozi Operation - a plan of invasion that would give the United States a base closer to Japan from which it could be attacked. General Duglas Makartur opposed the invasion of Taiwan, considering it too risky; This would mean the intersection of the disputed sea for the battle in a complex terrain against a well -protected army.

Military planners said the landing operation on the island would be much more difficult than planting in Normandy on the day "D". "The first thing you need to do is to form an invasion forces that will be large enough to land on a prepared defense island. You need to cross 160 km of Taiwanese duct, and you do it on large transport vessels that are very vulnerable during This transition, "said Major General Jeffrey A. Vanantverp, Director of the Pacific Army Command.

China is likely to use light landing vessels to try to capture the bridgehead in Taiwan, but these vessels will have to wade through highly replaced water. Although airborne airborne forces are likely to try to go to infrastructure, there is no viable way to capture such a large island as Taiwan, with its own defense and 23 million people, without the placement of soldiers on land, who should arrive. "You will not be able to do it without throwing a large landing on the ships through the straits.

There is no other way," said General Vanantverp. So China works on it. Chinese military planners have re -profiled civilian ferries for transportation of troops and equipment through the strait and are working on the construction of floating pierces, the Pentagon says. Pentagon did not go into details on how American instructors help Taiwan to build defense. But they made it clear to the Chinese that the landing of Taiwan would be at risk for them.

They also say that joint exercises with Pacific partners will show the Chinese military to all the opportunities that the United States may use. Major General Robert Smols, a Major General Small, will be crucial in Pearl Harbor. A ship that recently arrived from Norfolk, Virginia, through the Panama Channel for Training, can be moored ashore, unloading 900 tons of vehicles and cargoes - and, if necessary, forces - to the islands.

US Air Force cannot establish an advantage in the air over the entire Pacific, but they can open corridors that the army calls "inner lines" for free movement, say, between the Philippines and other islands. The United States already have some troops in place - about 54,000 in Japan, 25,000 in South Korea and a much smaller number in the Philippines. Hawaii's studies that ended in mid -October were designed to reproduce the conditions that troops can expect in the war with China.

Desert sand camouflage, which became mandatory during wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, disappeared. The troops in Hawaii wore camouflage for the jungle and painted their faces. The troops worked on new maneuvers, which were taken over by Ukrainian soldiers who were fighting with the Russian Federation. They communicated with each other without the use of army satellites, so the enemy could not intercept their conversations.

And they moved small groups on military vehicles, which were also provided by the Armed Forces. "It is very important- to be able to send the personnel of the company, which is about 130 people, on these vehicles several routes, and then at a certain point to combine them for the attack of the enemy, and then disperse in different directions,"- said General-General Major Marcus Evans, commander of the 25th infantry division.