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Ranges <45km
•M109A6 with Excalibur and PGK-M. U.S. has ~500 units in storage; send 250 of them plus 2,000 shells per gun
•Find a way to drop Quickstrike or other mines from small Fast Attack Craft Iran-style
•Keep B-1/B-2 aircraft with stocks of Quickstrike-ER at Diego/Wake/RAAF Amberley to allow rapid closure of ingress routes into Taiwan ports/landing beaches
50-to-100km range
•Maximize, surge deliveries of Switchblade 600 loitering munition
•Push for acquisition of six dozen HIMARS launchers, substantially increase number of GMLRS rounds transferred
100-to-250km range
•Accelerate transfer of ATACMS rounds, including via Presidential drawdown (port interdiction asset)
•Ensure rapid, numerous production and deployment of ground-launched Small Diameter Bomb (SDB), including possible integration of GBU-53 StormBreaker
•Transfer hundreds more AGM-84 rounds. Encourage Ukraine-style integration of AGM-84 with low-cost truck launchers, help train Taiwan personnel
•Provide longer-range loitering munitions capable of ship/port interdiction, potentially including/akin to: Rheinmetall HERO-900/1250 & IAI Harpy, Harop + Mini Harpy (https://www.iai.co.il/p/mini-harpy)
Asymmetric
•Maximize ability to deliver JASSM-ER, etc. with at least six dozen units of C-17 Cleaver Palletized Munitions System (https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/10/30/air-force-moves-forward-plan-turn-giant-cargo-planes-bomb-trucks.html).
•Build/deploy numerous small missile Fast Attack Craft akin to Iran’s Peykaap III-class (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peykaap_III-class_missile_boat).
•Build/deploy numerous unmanned anti-ship explosive vessels, akin to Houthi drone boats (https://www.conflictarm.com/perspectives/anatomy-of-a-drone-boat/).
•Unit cost less than ASCMs, 4-10x the explosive power, hard to defend against, and could distract PLAN/CCG/PAFMM/amphibious invasion forces like TB2 enabling Neptune strike on Moskva. Can also use semi-submersible design (https://warontherocks.com/2020/07/cocaine-logistics-for-the-marine-corps/)
•Charter old bulk carriers and anchor near approaches to key ports so they are pre-positioned for scuttling to block ingress routes. Panamax bulkers can currently be chartered for the equivalent of ~$5.5 million annually.
•Flood potential landing beaches with steel hedgehogs and concrete obstacles. Low-cost, scalable, hard to defeat.
Civil Defense/Insurgency
•Hold 60 days of liquid fuel stocks in hardened, dispersed locations
•Establish distributed arms caches with at least 1 million small arms, 100 million rounds ammo, 20,000 anti-tank weapons, and IED manufacturing components
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