U.S. to deploy new ground-based missiles to Indo-Pacific in 2024

Jacob Stokes, senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, cautioned that air, sea, space and cyber domains would be more important than land-based assets in a contingency over Taiwan and the South China Sea. “That is because of the primarily maritime geography of the areas in question,” Stokes said. “Land forces could play a useful role as part of the joint force, especially by operating land-based missiles and missile defenses, but the relative value of U.S. land forces in the East Asian context is not equal to forces focused on other domains.”

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