America Moves To Strengthen Its Pacific Defense Perimeter — but That Won’t Be Enough To Deter China

Congress could summon the next secretary of state and the head of the Indo-Pacific Command and ask: What is political warfare?

Harold Agnew via Wikimedia Commons
Aircraft of the 509th Composite Group on Tinian island in August 1945 after their bombing mission of Hiroshima. Left to right: Big Stink, The Great Artiste, and Enola Gay. Harold Agnew via Wikimedia Commons

The United States Air Force, in an effort to defend against potential attacks from Communist China, is rebuilding old World War II airfields across the Pacific. What’s missing, though, is a strategy to roll back Beijing’s rising influence across the region.

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