Army Long-Range Strike Gives China a Taste of Its Own Medicine

The USS George Washington (CVN-73), here with components of its airwing on deployment off South Korea, incurred a spate of seven suicides between April 2021 and April 2022 not while the ship was at sea but while it was Newport News, Va., undergoing an overhaul that forces its crew to live in “inhumane” industrial and toxic conditions. Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Charles Oki/U.S. Navy via Getty Images

Commentary

In response to China’s increasingly powerful blue-water navy and deployment of long-range “carrier killer” anti-ship ballistic missiles, the U.S. Army has developed a suite of weapons designed to destroy or suppress Chinese targets from very long ranges, and do so quickly and precisely while reducing the threat these Chinese weapons pose to vital Navy and Air Force offensive weaponry.