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according to a report on the website of the u.s. national defense monthly magazine on september 17, the u.s. air force will merge the "mobile guardian" and "bamboo eagle" exercises into one in 2025 to better prepare for potential conflicts in the indo-pacific region.

currently, the f-35 fighter is becoming an important link for the coordinated operations of the united states and its allies.

the mobile guardian 23 exercise, conducted by the u.s. air mobility command, was held in the indo-pacific region last summer, with 70 aircraft and more than 3,000 soldiers from australia, canada, france, japan, new zealand, the united kingdom and the united states. the u.s. air force said the exercise was designed to demonstrate the interoperability of joint forces and promote cooperation in a free and open indo-pacific region.

the recently concluded bamboo eagle 24-3 exercise was a 2024 joint exercise led by the u.s. air force operations center, which took place at multiple locations in california and the eastern pacific airspace. a u.s. air force press release said the exercise was intended to "test the air force's military capabilities and prepare for the challenges of the 21st century."

kevin schneider, commander of the u.s. pacific air forces, said in a keynote speech at the association of the united states air force and space force's aviation, space and cyber ​​conference on the 17th that the two exercises will be merged in 2025 to "combine logistics, support and guarantee capabilities with all the efforts we normally carry out and put them all under the same framework."

he said the exercise will project fifth-generation fighters, isr (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance), bombers, command and control, aircraft, airlift and aerial refueling capabilities to the western pacific region "rapidly and massively."

schneider told reporters on the 16th that moving the "mobile guardian" exercise to the pacific theater will bring logistics and support issues. he said: "our next step is to bring all capabilities together. so in 2025, in order to carry out this large-scale theater-scale exercise, we are now combining the smaller-scale exercises that have been conducted in the theater, enabling them, and combining them with logistics and support operations to command and control all activities."

while “we’re doing a lot of this,” schneider said, the air force will be “able to exercise scenarios that are of significant scope and scale and significant combat intensity. i know we’re going to be challenged, and we’re going to meet those challenges head on.”

u.s. air force chief of staff david allwin told reporters on the 16th that larger and longer-lasting exercises will enable air force personnel to better put combat systems under stress.

“you can’t really stress the system unless you do it for more than a day or two at a time,” he said. “you can’t train in small pieces to see if you can accomplish the full mission. so i’m looking to get longer-duration experience with these scaled-up exercises in conditions that are more representative of a future operating environment.”

“unless you exercise a large enough force over a long enough period of time,” he said, questions like which parts will be destroyed first, where the stress is greatest and what the right skill mix is ​​can’t be answered.