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2006-05-14 China-Japan-Koreas

Projecting U.S. Air Power in the Pacific

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Posted by ryuge 2006-05-14 03:02|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It's a long haul from Guam to most anywhere. A b-52 roundtrip to Vietnam took 13 - 15 hours, tanking twice, once on the way over and again on the way back.

Posted by RWV 2006-05-14 12:15|| 2006-05-14 12:15|| Front Page Top

#2 It's even further from any place else.

Posted by 6 2006-05-14 17:35|| 2006-05-14 17:35|| Front Page Top

#3 As said or inferred before on the Net, since the '90's, China can't achieve her ambitions for East Asian, Chinese- and Communism-centric hegemony without eliminating andor dominating the sovereign proserous Western democracies or WEst-elaning nations. One way or another, Communism/Stalinism/Maoism-happy China still plans to inevitably control the Pacific, INCLUDING BUT LIMITED TO HAWAII AND PARTS OF CONUS-NORAM. Add to China's ambitions both NORTH KOREA's and China's own well-publicized rants about the capabilities, or future capabilities, of their missle systems or OTH force projections.
By any measure, GUAM = OKINAWA = HAWAII = US WEST COAST, etc > all are equal as per the Chicom-NK Missle Threats + Airborne/Commando atack + anti-US Spetzlamist attack - within this context, DISTANCE TO ASIAN HOTSPOTS makes Guam, CNMI and Micronesia-WESTPAC tactically or strategically more vital than Hawaii or West Coast, espec given the Failed Left's [and aligned] own Year 2015-2020, "SOCIALISM-OWG OR ELSE" maxima timeline against America. Yamamoto and others knew this - no matter where FDR or the Navy Dept. relocated the US Pacific Fleet, for both Aggressor or Defender Guam had to be controlled by or taken from America. As per the WOT, the USDOD knows it > IRAN-DESIRED/CENTRIC NUCLEARIZED MIDEAST EMPIRE = LOSS OF ISRAEL = LOSS OF TAIWAN andor LOSS OF SOKOR-JAPAN > DE FACTO GLOBAL LOSS AND DECLINE OF US POWER > AMER'S ENEMIES ATTACKING CONUS DIRECTLY, i.e. "Over Here". Remember. by the Lefty US Ninth's infamous decision where the USA is held to be illegal and unconstitutional nation, the USA has no standing or right to either invade anyone, NOR DEFEND FROM INVASION(S), against the armed forces of legit sovereign nations.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-05-14 22:15|| 2006-05-14 22:15|| Front Page Top

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