America’s top brass responds to the threat of China in the Pacific
American bases are easy targets for Chinese missiles
FOR YEARS American commanders have watched the military balance in Asia shifting against them. In 2018 a commission warned that, in a war with China, “Americans could face a decisive military defeat”. On March 4th Admiral Philip Davidson, head of America’s Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM), said China would achieve “overmatch” within five years.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Dispersal orders”
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