[Epoch Times August 03, 2021](Epoch Times reporter Li Yan comprehensive report) The US Navy will conduct a two-week “2021 large-scale exercise” starting from Tuesday (August 3). Experts analyzed that the most grand military exercise in 40 years was designed to warn China and Russia that the United States is ready to respond to “high-end wars” and to respond to invasions from multiple fronts at the same time.
“Large Scale Exercise 2021” (Large Scale Exercise 2021, abbreviated as LSE) includes maritime operations (DMO), expeditionary advanced base operations (EABO), and target environment near-sea operations (LOCE). At that time, six naval and marine commands, five U.S. fleets and three marines will be dispatched, and as many as 36 warships including naval vessels will be put into the military exercise.
The Navy said that the large-scale exercise will continue until August 16 and will include troops from 17 different time zones. This is the first time the United States has conducted such a large-scale naval and amphibious force exercise since the “Ocean Venture NATO” exercise during the Cold War in 1981.
The U.S. Navy said in a recent statement that the LSE will test the flexibility of the U.S. military, verify the U.S.’s global integrated naval warfare capabilities, and at the same time send a signal to competitors that the U.S. military is clearly prepared to respond to “high-end wars.”
Deputy Commander of the US Sixth Fleet (Gene Black) said: “LSE will integrate the Marine Corps, test our commanders in the entire range of naval battles from tactics to strategy, and demonstrate that the fleet has moved from high seas to all over the world. The ability to coordinate actions along the coast.”
The US military.com website reported that James R. Holmes, a professor at the US Naval War College, said that LSE is expected to let opponents notice that the United States can simultaneously deal with the Black Sea, the eastern Mediterranean, and South China. The challenges of the sea and the East China Sea. So as to prevent efforts to disperse the U.S. military.
Holmes said this is also to prove that the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps are capable of denying opponents control of the ocean. This is particularly critical in the Western Pacific, where the United States hopes to prevent the CCP from occupying Taiwan or seizing the Senkaku Islands (Diaoyu Islands) under Japanese rule.
The Chinese Communist Party’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Tuesday that individual countries are instigating dissension between China and ASEAN countries, sending a large number of advanced warships and planes to provoke them, disrupting peace and stability in the South China Sea.
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