Despite the U.S. Army’s primary focus on land, leveraging the maritime domain in the Indo-Pacific can still have lasting effects, the deputy commander of U.S. Army Pacific said last week. Maritime operations can range from high-end military conflict to protecting sovereign territories from economic incursion, said Maj. Gen. Jonathan P. Braga. “The maritime domain awareness challenge is something the Army and the land components need to address seriously for the collective group of individual nations, armies and the land components,” he added. Thomas Brading, Army News Service, reports.
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| Soldiers from 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, and the Royal Thai Army conduct military operations in urban terrain during the Cobra Gold exercise, Feb. 13, 2019, in Phitsanulok, Thailand. (Picture source: U.S. Army/Sgt. Alvin Reeves) |
