The US military’s missile defenses plans on Guam hit the major obstacles, according to a new government control report.
Problems range from the lack of strategy or the timetable to preserve defense systems, logistics and maintenance issues in the army, and unknown to the residential services and the base they will need.
Last week, The US government accountability office issued a report Documenting the challenges facing the Ministry of Defense in its plan to develop the enhanced missile defense capacity on Guam, or the defense system in Guam.
It was a top priority as China built its missile forces, as it placed submarines and airports there on the front lines of the conflict.
The plan is the network objections networks, missiles, radars and sensors to provide a 360 -degree defense from the island, but the government accounting office said that there are some holes. “The Ministry of Defense does not have a strategy that includes a schedule and a plan to determine when and how the leading organization works – military services or [Missile Defense Agency] – He will take responsibility for operating and maintaining these systems.
USAF C-17S and allied aircraft are stopped on the Andersen Air Force Base in Guam on July 11, 2023.
Image of the American Air Force by the censor employees. Billy Ann Darbasi
Gao said that DOD has suggested that many military services can manage the GDS, which increases the development of a plan about who will take the initiative. On what is one of the largest and more Complex integrated air defense networks.
Lieutenant Robert Rush, joint executive of GDS, said the American Armed Services Committee earlier this month, GDS will include 16 sites around Guam and are appointed to the full installation between 2027 and 2032. It will cost about 8 billion dollars.
According to the GAO report, questions that were not answered inside DOD about who will work and maintain GDS elements, and on a largest number of employees or the publishing schedule, put the army on a waiting site while specifying training, employees and facilities.
The report indicated that some other Ministry of Defense institutions have conducted their own estimates for some of these areas, but there are broader restrictions facing housing, schools, medical facilities and supermarkets, as well as cannot be discovered until the Pentagon determines the number of members of the service that he will need.
The army is also struggling to take care of the missile battery in the height area in the THAD area, which was deployed on the island for more than a decade because the service lacks infrastructure. Army officials from the Talon Labor Squad and the thirty -eighth air artillery brigade told The Gao that they had difficulty obtaining approval from the navy on construction facilities on the island,; After Hurricane was struck in 2023, the army relied on the Marine Corps for its luck to protect the Thad and radars bombers.
The THAAD battery does not have a dedicated maintenance facility, and army cars that are subject to maintenance maintenance by temporary drops have been monitored, not a permanent attachment. Talon Gao told the Talon Gao that their soldiers depend on the bottled water due to the lack of clean drinking water in the area.
The army has maintained a battery of Thad on Game since 2013.
American missile defense agency
The report said that all of this contributed to the “morale of the spirit of the spirit” facing soldiers and civilians in the army.
The army’s plans to improve these issues included the establishment of an office to manage the presence of service in Guam, signing an agreement to negotiate the support of the installation of the facilities, and the presence of the army planners in Guam for more discussions.
Pentagon officials, experts and legislators in Washington continued to raise the alarm about the threat of Chinese Sufi arsenal to Guam. There was an invitation from the army to obtain more air defenses with the deepest magazines and concerns among American lawmakers about the weak American bases in the Pacific Ocean.
The Popular Missile Motion in China is proud of thousands of missiles, including DF-26, a medium-range ballistic missile called “Guam Express” because it can reach the island about 2,500 miles from Beijing.
While Chinese ballistic missiles were not tested in the fighting, conflict experts said the United States may face a threat to anything that it sees before if it would fight with China.
