
Amid larger and increasingly more sophisticated Chinese military exercises in the Western Pacific and especially near Taiwan, the U.S. needs better data analytic capabilities to discern intent and provide warnings, the Biden administration’s nominee to command U.S. forces in the Indo-Pacific region said this week. “First, mass data analytics” that “go deeper to be able to determine strategic, operational, and tactical warning of the force,” Adm. Samuel Paparo, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, said Tuesday afternoon in Silicon Vally…