"The question then becomes, what can we do that's new and different here in the Indo-Pacific to change that calculus, to change that thought, to change that mindset?  If you go back and look at the last series of writings over 2016, 17, 18,...the concept of anti-access aerial denial starts to really come into the military lexicon. How to defend, how do we fight? As we look at this DF (Chinese DF-26) threat and this other threat, what we have been able to change here,  through really the introduction of land-based fire systems,  is really change the narrative about what is the Army's role in the Pacific.  We tend to forget that the Army has more campaign streamers on the Army flag for campaigning in the Pacific than it does in Europe.  This is also an Army fight here.  The question then becomes, well, what is the Army's role? ....whether that's protecting territory in land, or whether that's assuring our partners and reassuring our allies," Col. John Harvey, Chief of Fires, US Army Pacific, told Warrior. 

"In my, in my world, and as the lead fires professional here for, for General Clark at US Army Pacific, I think of how do we apply land-based fires to change the thought, to change the calculus and show the adversary that there is a credible threat inside that bubble for them, so that if they choose, which we hope they don't, nobody wants that scenario....so that if they choose aggression, then there are land forces already postured with capable weapons,  like our new Mid-Range Capability, our Long-Range Hypersonic Weapons and the new missiles that are going to come out of the HIMARS system," Harvey said.