U.S. Military 'Beefs-Up' Its Presence On Wake Island

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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