![]() ![]() Since the landing sites will now be within hostile waters and airspace, the fleet can’t just line up offshore and unload landing craft: They’d be sitting ducks, then dead ones. “We’re going to be inside the adversary’s A2/AD envelope. “We’re not going to just back off and operate from greater distances,” Beaudreault said. Don’t think of Iwo Jima, where Navy control of air and sea allowed the Marines to land: Think of Guadalcanal, where Marines landed to seize an airstrip (Henderson Field) that in turn helped win the battle at sea. ![]() For the Marines, that means landing in areas that are not yet under friendly control and establishing forward bases to launch further attacks. So all the US services are studying ways to penetrate A2/AD bubbles and destroy them from the inside out. Wearing these defenses down from the outside in, using only long-range strikes, may take too long to rescue threatened allies, assuming we don’t just run out of missiles first. Nation-states like Russia, China, and to a lesser degree North Korea and Iran can set up long-range layered defenses known as Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) systems. Even terrorist groups like Hezbollah and the Islamic State now have anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles, drones to find targets for them, and wireless networks to command them. ![]()
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