"If Finland and Sweden join NATO , they can help the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps develop effective tactics to deter China in the Indo-Pacific region."
Turkey suddenly announced on the 228th that it had joined forces with Sweden and Finland A tripartite agreement was reached in which Turkey agreed to support Sweden and Finland in joining NATO. It is generally believed that Russia will face greater external pressure after Sweden and Finland join NATO. However, Stars and Stripes, which has a U.S. military background, believes that after these two countries join NATO, they will provide additional help to the United States in its fight against China in the Western Pacific.
James Holmes, head of the US Maritime Strategy Project, said that the Swedish and Finnish navies are good at taking advantage of the complex coastal environment in the Baltic Sea area, allowing their small missile patrol ships and conventional submarines to cover their tracks.
"Having honed their skills against Russia over decades, the Swedish and Finnish navies are adept at operating near the multi-island environment of the Baltic Sea to evade their adversaries' detection, tracking and targeting capabilities."
Such a skill set is particularly useful, Holmes said. The "Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations Concept" promoted by the US Marine Corps in the Western Pacific is very useful and "will also help strengthen Taiwan's defense."
According to reports, the so-called "expeditionary advanced base operations concept" refers to the use of small-scale Marine Corps forces to implement naval blockades, support sea control, or maintain fleet presence in disputed waters, especially the deployment of long-range precision strike weapons on key islands. to control nearby waters.
The U.S. Marine Corps believes that the "Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations Concept" is the most effective means to deal with China's "domain denial/anti-access" strategy in the Western Pacific. Holmes said, "If you want to build small combat forces, like the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps are talking about now, why not ask people who have already had this successful experience?"
Participate in joint exercises The "successful experience" of Finnish and Swedish ships
he refers to is the experience of the Swedish and Finnish navies in using small stealth fleets in complex sea areas. In particular, the Swedish Navy, although small in scale, was the first in the world to build the "Visby" class stealth frigate. At the same time, the AIP submarine it developed is also very distinctive.
Brian Clark, director of the Center for Defense Concepts and Technology at the Hudson Institute in the United States, said that if Sweden and Finland were admitted as NATO members, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps would have easier access to knowledge on topics such as how to use terrain to evade detection by aggressors. course. The two countries have long had close ties with NATO and often participate in joint exercises led by the United States. The Swedish submarine has also served as an imaginary enemy many times to train the US aircraft carrier strike group against "conventional submarines of hostile countries", but after all, they are not NATO member states cannot be fully integrated into the NATO combat command system, "which limits their ability to fully integrate." Clark said that after Sweden and Finland join NATO, their navies can join the NATO aircraft carrier strike group, further increasing opportunities for mutual learning and integration.
Finnish minelayers in joint exercises with the US Navy
In a word, "If Finland and Sweden join NATO, they can help the US Navy and Marine Corps develop effective tactics to deter China in the Indo-Pacific region."
The veteran would like to say that the United States’ wishful thinking is too loud. Seeing that inciting NATO to “fire” Russia in Europe is causing more and more trouble, it does not know how to restrain itself and wants to take action against China in the Western Pacific region. It's just that there is an old saying in China that "those who play with fire will burn themselves". It is best for the United States to learn the wisdom from the East first.
