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Today's Topics:
1. O/t: Pacific partnerships are key to preventing war, US Army
leaders say (Stephen Loosley)
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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 13:18:32 +1030
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Pacific partnerships are key to preventing war, Army leaders say
With partnership help, outgoing U.S. Army Pacific commander has, ?built a
formation that is lethal and cohesive.?
By Jennifer Hlad Managing Editor, Defense One November 12, 2024
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2024/11/pacific-partnerships-are-key-preventing-war-army-leaders-say/400971/
FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii ? The personal relationships soldiers are building in
dozens of training exercises each year with partners throughout the
Indo-Pacific are the true strength of U.S. Army Pacific, the command?s new
leader said Friday, pledging to continue the initiatives championed by outgoing
commander Gen. Charles Flynn.
?It?s those relationships, built on a bedrock of trust, that really give our
adversaries pause. They can plan for, or resource against, technical or
procedural advantage that we may have, but they can?t undo relationships,? said
Gen. Ronald Clark.
He added that Flynn ?has made the region safer and our Army stronger.?
Clark has served here multiple times before. He is returning to Hawaii after
two years as the senior military assistant to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin?a
role that prompted Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., to hold up Clark?s promotion
for weeks.
He took command from Flynn on Friday in a rainy ceremony attended by senior
military leaders from across the region.
Flynn used his last speech in uniform to discuss key events and themes that
made a difference in his life, to recognize family and friends, and to thank
U.S. partners in the region for underscoring what he calls ?the strategic land
power network?a great counterweight to all the things that are happening out
here every day that are dangerous and aggressive.?
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The way to ?maintain peace and stability, protect everyone?s freedoms and
prosperity, and ultimately?our highest duty, as [INDOPACOM?s Adm.] Sam Paparo
says, is to deter and prevent a war from going on. So the goal here is to have
no war.?
Flynn has been a passionate champion of the Army?s role in the Pacific?which he
calls ?vital and central to success??and regularly highlights the importance of
Operation Pathways, a series of more than 40 joint and partner exercises across
the region.
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George said at the ceremony that Army?s Pacific
forces have during Flynn?s tenure ?planned, coordinated, and executed more than
200 bilateral military exercises in more than 90 countries,? as they ?built a
formation that is lethal and cohesive.?
U.S. Army Pacific ?is gritty, determined, smart, creative, and a spirited team,
because they have taken on the traits of their commander,? George said.
?Your genuine and sincere appreciation for our partners and allies has laid the
foundation of trust and respect we enjoy today and must have to win tomorrow.?
There is no mission more important for the Army, George said, directing his
comments to Clark. ?Today, our adversaries are working together to challenge
us in every theater. Russia, China, Iran and North Korea represent an axis of
upheaval that is increasingly collaborating to threaten the free world.?
Paparo, leader of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, noted that ?the security
environment has worsened? since Clark was last stationed in the theater, in
2021.
?Given this dangerous security environment, the connected, transactional
symbiosis of our would-be adversaries, the [People?s Republic of China?s]
increasingly aggressive behavior, the increasing connections between Russia and
North Korea, we need to the team to be ready."
"You are precisely the right leader for this assignment,? Paparo said.
Still, Clark told reporters he is not overly concerned by news that North
Korean troops are fighting alongside Russians in Ukraine.
?It really doesn?t give me pause? because on, as you know, on the Korean
peninsula, we?re ready to fight tonight,? he said.
?The proliferation of combat capabilities across the world is something that
happens at breathtaking speed now, given automation, the internet, AI, machine
learning. So our expectation is? that our adversaries are going to learn
quickly. We also have to learn quickly, and quicker, from ongoing conflicts.
And?the thing that they can?t break are those relationships? with allies and
partners.
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Nb however:
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/trump-team-s-ominous-response-to-rudd/ar-AA1tYiOj
"Trump team?s ominous response to Rudd. Last week, Mr Rudd congratulated Mr
Trump on his historic White House win in a social media post, writing on X that
Australia ?looks forward to working closely with President Trump and his
Administration. But overnight, Dan Scavino, a longtime close associate of the
US President-elect, replied to the Australian ambassador?s congratulatory note
with a GIF of an hourglass."
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