Within the Indo-Pacific lies the most significant challenge to U.S. national security, the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The PRC aims to reshape both the Indo-Pacific and global order, based on a different set of values and international norms. For Pacific Marines, this translates to the PRC aggressively leveraging its military and economic power, with ambitions of unifying with Taiwan through non-peaceful means, seeking control over the East China and South China Seas, using coercion against countries of all sizes throughout the Pacific, and extending its influence beyond the Indo-Pacific region.
mandag 2. juni 2025
Report: US Pacific Marines Strategy 2025
Pacific Marines simultaneously face both the most challenging terrain and the most dangerous adversaries across the geographic combatant commands. The Indo-Pacific is a vast and diverse region that includes the majority of the world’s population spread across 38 countries and thousands of islands. It includes both the world’s largest military and economic powers as well as some of the smallest. Pacific Marines may operate from the Arctic Circle to the Southern Ocean and from India to Arizona in a region known for its natural hazards like monsoons, earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons, and volcanic eruptions.
Within the Indo-Pacific lies the most significant challenge to U.S. national security, the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The PRC aims to reshape both the Indo-Pacific and global order, based on a different set of values and international norms. For Pacific Marines, this translates to the PRC aggressively leveraging its military and economic power, with ambitions of unifying with Taiwan through non-peaceful means, seeking control over the East China and South China Seas, using coercion against countries of all sizes throughout the Pacific, and extending its influence beyond the Indo-Pacific region.
Within the Indo-Pacific lies the most significant challenge to U.S. national security, the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The PRC aims to reshape both the Indo-Pacific and global order, based on a different set of values and international norms. For Pacific Marines, this translates to the PRC aggressively leveraging its military and economic power, with ambitions of unifying with Taiwan through non-peaceful means, seeking control over the East China and South China Seas, using coercion against countries of all sizes throughout the Pacific, and extending its influence beyond the Indo-Pacific region.
