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Title:
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Revealed: America's Backup Plan in Case of War with China
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Author:
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Robert Beckhusen
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Source:
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The National Interest
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Date:
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February 25, 2016
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Description:
- The United States can no longer count on its Pacific air bases to be safe from missile attack during a war with China. On the contrary, a 2015 paper from the influential RAND Corporation noted that in the worst case scenario, “larger and accurate attacks sustained over time against a less hardened posture could be devastating, causing large losses of aircraft and prolonged airfield closures.”