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 island outpost in the Pacific is an essential fallback point for pushing airpower west during a major conflict.
The Commandant of the Marine Corps has a vision for a new way of fighting future wars and making regular deployments abroad.
News of China’s development of a long-range stealth fighter bomber is a punch to the gut to those who long championed a similar concept for the USAF.
The announcement comes shortly after reports that the Iranians fired an earlier version of this weapon during an exercise in the Strait of Hormuz.
It is also the first launch of a ballistic missile of any kind in more than a year and could draw harsh criticism from the Trump Administration.
Any serious Iranian attempt to shut down both passages simultaneously could be a nightmare scenario for international commerce, or worse.
The exercise comes as tensions between the US and Iran are on the rise following President Trump’s threat to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.