Anticipating War With China, The U.S. Air Force Is Fanning Out Across The Pacific

For years, the U.S. Air Force concentrated its warplanes at just two bases in the western Pacific—Kadena Air Force Base, in Japan’s Okinawa prefecture, for fighters; Guam’s Andersen Air Force Base for bombers and big support planes.

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Beijing eyed these mega-bases and devised a simple strategy for suppressing U.S. air power in the region. Build a couple thousand non-nuclear ballistic missiles and, in wartime, lob them at the bases until their runways, aprons, hangars, fuel tanks and warehouses are nothing but craters. The USAF is keenly aware of the threat. It has its own plan for dodging the missile barrages. The idea is to spread out hundreds of warplanes across potentially dozens of smaller bases—thus diluting the striking power of China’s rocket force.

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