WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army will deploy two task forces with the ability to fight across the information, electronic, cyber and missile domains in the Pacific to counter China.<br /><br />Reuters reports that Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said at a Brookings Institute event on Friday that the multi-domain task forces will be established in two years.<br /><br />Although McCarthy did not specify any locations, Bloomberg News speculates that those units will likely be based on islands east of Taiwan and the Philippines.<br /><br />Citing McCarthy, Reuters reports the U.S. Army intends to "neutralize all the investments China and Russia have made."<br /><br />China's military strategy calls for blocking U.S. naval forces from entering the Pacific through the first and second island chains.<br /><br />The People's Liberation Army intends to achieve this by utilizing surveillance satellites and building up its arsenal of anti-ship ballistic missiles.<br /><br />The task forces would potentially be armed with hypersonic missiles and other weapons capable of attacking land and sea based targets.<br /><br />Reuters reports that these units will help neutralize the capabilities China and Russia now possess.
