General John Hyten, Vice Chairman of the U.S. Army Joint Council, admitted at the establishment ceremony of the Institute of Emerging Technology of the National Defense Industry Association on the 26th that the U.S. military suffered a disastrous defeat in the recent simulated Sino-U.S. conflict around the Taiwan Strait, according to Chinese media quoting American media reports. According to his description, this is not just a general fiasco, but a complete overturn of the war experience accumulated by the US military over the past 20 years.
The US “Stars and Stripes” stated that this war game took place in October last year. In the simulated confrontation surrounding the conflict in the Taiwan Strait, “the US military has completely followed the tactics of the past 20 years, and has even done better. However, in the end, the result was a disastrous defeat. This is the problem.”
According to John Hyten, at the beginning of the simulated confrontation, the “blue team (on behalf of the US military)” almost immediately lost access to its network. As a result of the loss of information superiority, the U.S. military, which relied too heavily on the Internet, became incapable of fighting and quickly lost the dominance of war.
The report also mentioned that after the war broke out, the U.S. military habitually assembled ships, aircraft, and other troops to combine firepower and support each other, but this practice caused them to “sit and wait to die.” Hyten said, “We always concentrate our forces to fight and strive to survive, but in today’s world, there are hypersonic missiles from all directions and powerful long-range firepower attacking us. If everyone knew wherever we assemble, we are easily attacked.”
This is not the first time that the US military has disclosed that it has suffered a “disastrous defeat” in the “simulated confrontation between China and the United States.” A few months ago, the U.S. Air Force also admitted that the U.S. military had achieved two disastrous defeats and one disastrous victory in the three combat games in 2018, 2019, and 2020 that simulated the Sino-U.S. conflict. The only winning was almost obtained by cheating – in order to defeat the People’s Liberation Army, the US Air Force used weapons and equipment that did not exist in reality.
The US “Business Insider” website stated on the 27th that the war game in October last year was intended to test the new concept of “joint operations” proposed by the US military, but the latter followed the US military’s traditional tactics and suffered a “tragic defeat.” This “disastrous defeat” pushed the Pentagon to abolish the concept of “joint operations” that has guided U.S. military operations for decades, and instead develop an “expanded mobility” strategy.
