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UPDATE 1-U.S. Army plans to expand Asian security efforts to counter China

Published 01/11/2020, 03:16 AM
Updated 01/11/2020, 03:24 AM
UPDATE 1-U.S. Army plans to expand Asian security efforts to counter China

(Adds Pentagon sourcing, U.S. Army Secretary quotes,
background, WASHINGTON dateline)
WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Army plans to deploy
two specialized task forces to the Pacific capable of conducting
information, electronic, cyber and missile operations against
Beijing, a Pentagon official said on Friday.
The task forces were slated to deploy over the next two
years, U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said at an event https://brook.gs/39VM3fS
in Washington.
"The Army is reinvigorating our presence and disposition in
the Pacific," McCarty said, because "China will emerge as
America's strategic threat."
The units, called Multi-Domain Task Forces, would help
neutralize some capabilities China and Russia already possess.
The units would potentially be equipped with long range
precision weapons, hypersonic missiles, precision strike
missiles, electronic warfare and cyber capabilities, McCarthy
said, without citing any locations.
Having "the U.S. Army, with modernized weaponry" in the
region "changes the calculus and creates dilemmas for potential
adversaries," McCarthy said.
"China has been militarizing the global commons," he said,
referring to China's fortification of small islands in the South
China Sea.
"Nothing comes close to the effects of boots on the ground,
standing shoulder to shoulder with our counterparts, huddled
over plans, or walking through jungles together," he added.

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