A Pacific conflict may not look like conventional war, SOCPAC commander says

HONOLULU—The better the U.S. gets at fighting in conventional ways, the more likely it is that adversaries will avoid a conventional conflict, the head of Special Operations Command Pacific said.But that doesn’t mean they will avoid a fight altogether, Army Brig. Gen. Michael Rose said at the Indo-Pacific Irregular Warfare Symposium here last week.“If an adversary believes that a direct military confrontation with the United States or our allies is likely to end badly for them,