Trump proposed a "return to the Asia-Pacific" strategy after he took office, aimed at strengthening the US military power in the Asia-Pacific region and curbing the development of China and Russia in the ocean. In recent years, the U.S. military's military deployment has largely tilted toward the Asia-Pacific region, with priority deployment of various new types of equipment, and the size and quality of military bases are among the best in the world. According to statistics, 42.7% of the 374 overseas bases in the United States are located in the Asia-Pacific region. Three lines of defense have been laid out with base groups in Japan, South Korea, Australia, and Alaska as the core, to fortify layers on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean.
The latest news stated that in order to strengthen the defense of the Asia-Pacific region, the US military has made major adjustments to its military deployment in the region. The Ministry of National Defense led the navy and air forces to jointly build a "joint destruction network." This system has strong cooperative attack combat capabilities and defensive capabilities. It is called the new "Manhattan Project" and has important strategic significance for maintaining hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region. This plan aims to make up for the shortcomings of the US military in electronic and information warfare and to ensure that it still has an absolute advantage in future wars.
However, the Rand Think Tank pointed out that the deployment of the US military seems impeccable, but in fact there are big loopholes. The current construction of US military bases still follows the concept of "points to areas" during the Cold War. This model can indeed play a role in dominating the world with the strong maritime power of the US military. However, with the development of military technology, US military overseas bases are like huge ones The target is vulnerable to hypersonic missiles. Once a conflict breaks out, only 80 ballistic missiles can paralyze 56 military bases in the Asia-Pacific region.
In fact, the Pentagon has also discovered this. It is currently trying to strengthen the anti-missile capability in the Asia-Pacific region. In the future, a large-scale land-based "Aegis" anti-missile system will be deployed. This system is born out of the "Aegis" used by the US Navy and has strong target tracking and interception capabilities. Some time ago, the Ministry of Defense of Japan planned to introduce a land-based "Aegis" system from the United States, but it gave up due to the high cost of the transformation operation and lack of rationality, and changed it to sea-based mobile defense. The "Aegis" frigates make full use of civilian ships and offshore drilling platforms to play a defensive role in the territorial waters. The
plan also represents the will of the United States to a certain extent. After all, protecting Japan means protecting the US military's Asia-Pacific base. However, the land-based "Aegis" has been developed for many years, and the "Standard"-3 missile has undergone many interception tests, and has not yet reached the actual combat level. According to the "2030 Missile Defense Plan" released by the US Navy's official website, the "Joint Killing Network" can only be initially completed in 2030. It is difficult to imagine what level the Russian hypersonic missile will develop in these ten years, and it is still unknown whether it will exert the expected effect by then.
