Warzone/The Drive: Major Airfield Expansion On Wake Island Seen By Satellite As U.S. Preps For Pacific Fight
America's remote island outpost in the Pacific is an essential fallback point for pushing airpower west during a major conflict.
America's remote outpost deep in the Pacific, situated roughly between Japan and Hawaii, Wake Island serves as a reserve airfield should American airpower have to fallback from the far reaches of Western Pacific during a peer state conflict. It also provides a reverse utility, working as a staging ground in a crisis for air combat missions heading west, into Russia's and especially China's highly-defended anti-access and area-denial (A2/AD) bubbles that emanate far from their shores. With the ongoing 'pivot towards the Pacific' and with adversary A2/AD capabilities creeping farther east, Wake Island is more important than it has been in decades, possibly since World War II.
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WNU Editor: Here is an easy prediction. This island will be a priority target in any large scale conflict.
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True, as main China strategic point will be a target of American forces. In case of war with China, it would very bloody. And it is a little word if it will not going to the nuclear step. Otherwise, America will be extremely damaged and China will disappear from the human civilization.
Who cares, if America is beefing up Wake Island!?
One Biden presidency and it is all for naught.
The first order of business will be to get Trump or anyone appointed by him. Russia collusion investigations will be on steroids. BLM/OWS will still be protesting knowing that not even the Feds are coming after them and that they are safe to loot, murder, and rape.
After a Biden presidency the murderous Xi will seem like a saint.
"Europe will side with America." Uh no, not gonna happen. As an American, we know we're completely alone. No one is going to stand with us.
In this day and age any immobile base is a bullseye waiting to be struck.
The same situation existed in the same ocean in WWII.
This book will demonstrate the ease with which the US Navy dismantled the extensive island base network Japan had constructed to defend itself; Pacific War Diary, Pacific War participant and author James J. Fahey. Quite an eye opener.
I don't think anti-missile defenses are at this time enough to protect these sitting ducks.
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