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That's why the Defense Department's 2020 budget proposal featured so many of them.

In the event of war between the United States and China in the western Pacific region, the outposts likely would be important targets for the Americans.

Do we really believe the era of low-intensity wars has ended? Here's What You Need to Remember: In again putting the A-10 on the chopping block, the Air Force is assuming it won’t ever fight anything short of a full-scale war against a peer enemy. The U.S. Air Force in its 2021 budget proposal asked Congress to let it retire 44 of its roughly 280 A-10 Warthog attack jets. It’s the second time in recent years that the flying branch has tried to slash the A-10 fleet.  It’s fair to say that, in the 2020s, budget appropriations are the biggest threat to the low-flying Warthog. Thirty years...

Why China's Missile Capabilities Should Terrify the U.S. Military China has conducted several missile tests in the South China Sea in recent years and placed anti-ship missiles in strategic areas which could threaten American interests.  Here's What You Need to Remember: In moving a dozen DF-26 launchers to Inner Mongolia, around 2,000 miles from the Paracels, China reportedly aims to protect the rockets from boost-phase interception. The Chinese military lobbed anti-ship ballistic missiles into the South China Sea in tests in early July 2019. The missile trials underscored Beijing’s inc...

The U.S. Defense Department’s regional command for South America  is the smallest of the department’s 10 unified commands. It permanently oversees just 1,200 personnel plus a few thousand troops and a handful of ships on temporary deployments. But that doesn’t mean the U.S. military couldn’t invade Venezuela in the event Washington makes good on past threats and orders the Pentagon to intervene in the slowly-collapsing South American country. Not, of course, that invading Venezuela is a good idea. Experts agree it’s not. Most major U.S. military forces are by nature expeditionary...