A different view: Forward US bases in Persian Gulf are not obsolete
In RS this morning, Jennifer Kavanagh provided an excellent contribution assessing the limitations of the operational concepts applied by the U.S. military against Iran to a future great power war with China. Kavanagh concludes that the vulnerability of U.S. forward bases highlighted during the Iran war may render them obsolete.This argument, while useful, goes too far. Kavanagh’s conclusion overstates the severity of U.S. bases’ vulnerability, neglects the effective countermeasures the U.S. can...
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