{"id":160016,"date":"2026-11-10T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=160016"},"modified":"2026-11-10T10:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T10:00:11","slug":"could-us-marines-sustain-a-war-with-china-officers-warn-of-pacific-weaknesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=160016","title":{"rendered":"Could US Marines sustain a war with China? Officers warn of Pacific weaknesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS Marines deployed across the western Pacific could struggle to sustain their forces, move missile batteries and secure permission to launch operations from allied territory in a conflict with China, according to assessments by Marine Corps officers and independent analysts.<br \/>\nWriting separately in the November issue of the US Naval Institute\u2019s Proceedings journal, retired lieutenant general Stephen Sklenka and serving Lieutenant Colonel Merritt Mitchell identified vulnerabilities in the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3373938\/could-us-marines-sustain-war-china-officers-warn-pacific-weaknesses\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS Marines deployed across the western Pacific could struggle to sustain their forces, move missile batteries and secure permission to launch operations from allied&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160016"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}