ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY

The Association of the U.S. Army’s LANPAC Symposium and Exposition in Honolulu, focused on land forces and land power in the Indo-Asian-Pacific Theater, wrapped up May 25 even as Army leaders in Washington, D.C., warned Congress that readiness problems remain.

More than 1,700 people attended the three-day Pacific forum, hosted by the AUSA’s Institute of Land Warfare, including 400 industry exhibitors. This is the fifth year for the event, one that brought military representatives from 30 countries including the chiefs of staff of nine armies.

The U.S. Pacific Command commander says the services and their multinational partners need to “work out the kinks” of multidomain battle issues in training and exercises, and take risks with culture-changing experimentation of capability-sharing.

Speaking at the Association of the U.S. Army’s LANPAC Symposium and Exposition in Honolulu, Navy Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr. said the multidomain concept needs to be advanced “with a sense of urgency” because potential adversaries are not waiting.

The U.S. and its Pacific partners began a three-day meeting Tuesday in Honolulu with a fresh reminder from North Korea about danger in the Indo-Asia-Pacific Theater.

Sunday’s successful ballistic missile launch by the regime of North Korea’s pugnacious leader Kim Jong Un, and his subsequent declaration of beginning mass production of the midrange solid-fuel missiles known as the Pukguksong-2, is evidence, if any was needed, that there are serious security issues at stake.

April 28, 2017

The top U.S. commander in the Pacific says the threat from North Korea is as real as the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.

“The crisis on the Korea Peninsula is the worst I’ve seen,” Navy Adm. Harry Harris Jr., U.S. Pacific Command commander, told the Senate Armed Services Committee. “We are faced with a threat and a leader who is intent on achieving his goal of a nuclear capability against the United States.”

Thirty-eight training days a year is “insufficient” for reserve component units with crucial skills needed early in a fight, the commanding general of the 9th Mission Support Command said May 25. The discussion came during the second day of the LANPAC Symposium and Exposition, an event hosted by the Association of the U.S. Army’s Institute of Land Warfare.Brig. Gen. Stephen K. Curda, who has headed the Army Reserve unit since last July, said that if money can be found, more training would aid Army National Guard and Army Reserve units.

The Association of the U.S. Army wrapped up a successful LANPAC Symposium and Exposition on May 26, an event that had record attendance for meaty discussions on land forces in the Indo-Asia-Pacific Theater.

More than 28 nations participated.

“What a great week,” said Gen. Robert B. Brown, the U.S. Army Pacific commanding general. “It really went beyond expectations.”

More than 1,700 people attend the Honolulu event, a 40 percent increase over 2015 and significant jump from the just under 600 people who attended AUSA’s first LANPAC conference in 2013.