The War Zone – A vision of Army units launching long-range one-way attack drones at enemy warships and ballistic missiles in the Pacific and Europe is taking shape.

The War Zone – Battles far away are informing major changes to how the Army trains, equips and operates in the vast Pacific.

USNI News – The U.S. Army laid out its plans to prepare for a prolonged fight in the Pacific along the First Island Chain in the service’s new warfighting guidance released this month.

USNI News – The U.S. Army recently activated a task force designed to coordinate missile salvos and break enemy area denial networks in the service’s latest effort to strengthen its Indo-Pacific posture.

Modern War Institute – The battle for twenty-first-century global supremacy will be decided across the volatile expanse of the Indo-Pacific. Characterized by vast oceans, dispersed island chains, and contested littorals, the rise of Chinese military power presents distinctive challenges to US military force projection and operational reach. Since World War II, American naval and air forces have typically led these maritime efforts on behalf of coalition teams. However, the changing operational environment—exemplified by recent area-denial campaigns in the Black Sea and the Persian Gulf—now present opportunities for land forces to counter adversary aggression in maritime settings with novel thinking and new approaches. The US Army, with emerging capabilities that promise to reimagine joint sea control, is now postured to enable revitalized strategic deterrence for the middle years of the twenty-first century.

USNI News – The Army’s Plan to Defeat an Amphibious Invasion in the Indo-Pacific.

Naval News – A future variant of the U.S. Army’s future Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) anti-ship ballistic missile should be able to strike maritime targets at ranges up to 1,000 kilometers and must be able to operate in the Indo-Pacific, according to recent program documents.

USNI News – The U.S. Army is using a facility in Subic Bay to stage equipment for exercises and alliance contingencies, according to a recent think tank report and imagery released by the Pentagon.

The War Zone – ATACMS and PrSM ballistic missiles have played a key role in destroying Iran’s Navy from afar.

The War Zone – The U.S. military has been using M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) to strike Iranian ships as part of Operation Epic Fury. Since the current conflict erupted, the only munitions those launchers have been seen firing are Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) and Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) short-range ballistic missiles. PrSM has made its combat debut against Iran, and the newly disclosed operational details raise the question of whether an anti-ship version has been fielded.

Naval News – The U.S. Army wants to accelerate the development of a Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) anti-ship variant capable of being fired from the service’s highly mobile rocket launchers and striking maritime targets over a thousand kilometers away, according to a recent notice.

USNI News – The U.S. Army’s 25th Infantry Division, one of the service’s most frequently deployed units throughout the Indo-Pacific, received its first High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems this week, a move that the unit said will increase their effectiveness in the region.

Naval News – The loading of what the U.S. Army described as a “credible, land-based maritime strike capability” onto a vessel for the first time is a crucial step for the Typhon Missile System’s future deployment in coastal and amphibious operations across the Indo-Pacific.

CIMSEC – Alongside Marine Corps stand-in forces and U.S. special operations forces, Army forces can help secure key terrain in maritime Asia. Land force integration is essential to preventing war and winning the long-term strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific.

The War Zone – The U.S. Army is already interested in scaling down its new Typhon ground-based missile system, if possible, to help make it easier to deploy and operate. The service only sent Typhon, which currently uses large tractor-trailer launchers to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles and SM-6 multi-purpose missiles, overseas for the first time to the Philippines earlier this year.

The War Zone – During the Valiant Shield exercise, the missile was fired from an unmanned launcher against a ship with the help of a high-endurance balloon and drone.

The War Zone – Now both MH-6s and MH-60s from the 160th SOAR have been seen in the blue camouflage amid a shift in focus to high-end Pacific operations.

Modern War Institute – The ability of the MRC to strike a maritime target today and HIMARS maritime-strike technology of the future, paired with the organic deep sensing of the ERSE company, are complementary capabilities that enable the Army to answer Admiral Harris’s call to action: to be relevant in the future fight in the Indo-Pacific region, the Army needed to be able to sink ships. The collective deployment of these systems and formations during Operation Pathways is a testament to the sense of urgency behind the Army’s transformation as well as the all-domain interdependencies of the joint force that come together on the land through the creation of joint interior lines. These new systems and formations will later participate in Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center (JPMRC) training, another signature effort for US Army Pacific, which enhances the training with a free-thinking adversary and overarching scenario within an already challenging operational environment. Forward deployment of combat-credible forces through Operation Pathways, creation of enduring interior lines for the joint force, and the addition of complexity to training through JPMRC: this is transformation in contact for the Army in the Indo-Pacific.

Modern War Institute – The US military should socialize and then introduce a Reforger-style exercise in the Indo-Pacific region to assess and improve its own ability to rapidly deploy theater-level military capabilities in the event of a major conflict and to serve as a form of strategic messaging.

War on the Rocks – As Gen. Omar Bradley is credited as saying, “Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics.” Unfortunately, when it comes to how the American defense community plans for and talks about the future of competition and conflict in the Pacific, it isn’t measuring up to Bradley’s metric. For instance, at the Army’s annual meeting, the secretary of the Army gave a powerful speech on how “we have got to ask the tough questions and make the hard decisions on what our force needs to fight in the future.” Yet, there was no mention of “logistics,” and the only discussion of “sustainment” was of barracks repair.

CNN – China has accused the United States of “stoking military confrontation” with the recent deployment of a powerful missile launcher capable of firing weapons with a range of up to 1,600 kilometers to exercises in the Philippines.

The War Zone – The Army’s Typhon system, which can fire Tomahawk and SM-6 missiles, is in the Philippines for its inaugural Indo-Pacific deployment.

USNI News – Last week, the Army stood up its second Typhon battery at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., based on launchers used on Navy guided-missile warships. Delta Battery is the latest missile unit to join the 1st Multi-Domain Task Force’s (MDTF) Strategic Fires Battalion.

1945 – James Holmes writes that a friend serving in the U.S. Army asks: how can army leaders get their message about the army’s role in Pacific strategy to “resonate” with their sea-service counterparts?