By Tyler Durden At the end of August the Pentagon initially announced a mandate for military personnel across all armed service branches, ordering them to “immediately…
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by Allen Zhong The U.S. Navy declared Saturday the five crewmembers missing in the Aug. 31 helicopter crash off the coast of San Diego deceased. “The U.S. Navy has…
by Michael Cozzi The heart-wrenching scenes that emerged from the Kabul Airport have been a tough pill to swallow for Americans as the hallmark of a…
By Tom Rogan China reacted furiously on Thursday to the possibility that President Joe Biden might invite his Taiwanese counterpart, Tsai Ing-wen, to a virtual pro-democracy summit…
By David Ware Russian President Vladimir Putin, second left, reviews a Navy parade in Baltiisk, western Russia, Sunday, July 26, 2015 during celebrations for Russian…
By Wes Walker The media on the left usually love stories like this … they can milk it for days. But don’t expect them to…
By Tyler Durden On Tuesday the Chinese PLA navy and air forces warned a US warship to leave China-claimed territorial waters near the disputed Spratly Islands…
By Kenneth Garger Two pilots on board a U.S. Navy plane were killed when it crashed into a residential neighborhood in Alabama on Friday night, authorities…
A senior Iranian naval commander has denounced US military activity in the region and has promised a swift and devastating response if his country’s maritime…
IDF has been on high alert in the North since July 20 over concerns of a Hezbollah attack. By ANNA AHRONHEIM Four months after the…
IDF has been on high alert in the North since July 20 over concerns of a Hezbollah attack. By ANNA AHRONHEIM Four months after the…
![While the news cycles continue to be dominated with coronavirus, domestic unrest, and the latest insult that an unhinged Democrat or Left-wing media pundit hurls at President Donald Trump, the commander-in-chief’s Pentagon has been quietly stocking up on firepower and military resources at a remote, but strategic, Pacific outpost. Wake Island was taken from the United States by Imperial Japanese forces within a few weeks after Emperor Hirohito’s navy sent hundreds of warplanes to bomb and destroy the American fleet at Pearl Harbor. A small force of U.S. Marines and civilians held off the Japanese for about two weeks, but they eventually overran the island outpost at a significant cost. The Encyclopedia Brittanica notes: Located about 2,000 miles (3,200 km) west of Hawaii and 600 miles (approximately 1,000 km) north of the [then] Japanese-held Marshall Islands, Wake Island impressed American naval planners as an ideal site for an advance defensive outpost. Wake Island would remain in Japanese hands for the remainder of World War II, but afterward, it was re-garrisoned by the United States military, serving mostly as a highly restricted staging area for U.S. aircraft operating in the region and a first line of defense of the American homeland. In recent months, the island’s infrastructure has been dramatically increased and improved, as part of the U.S. Navy’s “pivot toward the Pacific” — the Trump administration’s ongoing strategy of moving more military resources to the region in order to check a surging China. According to new satellite imagery published by The Drive, there have been substantial improvements and expansions made both to the island’s nearly 10,000-foot runway and to its facilities. Indeed, “Wake is the only 10,000-foot runway for a 4,000 stretch of the Pacific Ocean,” according to a military public affairs report. In 2016, the report said that the 2.8-square mile island “handles a modest 500 to 600 aircraft annually, but it does so with a staff of about six. The same three people marshal, service and refuel every plane.” The Drive notes: New satellite imagery that The War Zone obtained from Planet Labs dated June 25th, 2020 shows that substantial improvements to the base have occurred recently. Based on archival satellite imagery, the major expansions to the airfield began early this year and are still underway today. One satellite image “shows the large eastern apron area’s big expansion, as well as an enlarged secondary apron area on the west end on the runway. The runway itself has been completely rebuilt,” the site added. The Pentagon has spent hundreds of millions of dollars improving the runway, aircraft staging areas, and infrastructure. There is now a large solar farm on the west end of the island. And, as The Drive notes, it’s likely that the Pentagon will continue pouring money and resources into Wake as tensions with China ramp up again. What’s also notable is that Wake sits outside the range of China’s and North Korea’s medium-range ballistic missiles, whereas Guam — another U.S. outpost in the Pacific — doesn’t. Wake is also outside of their intermediate range missiles as well, most likely. The build-up at Wake comes amid Chinese improvements to manmade islands and other atolls in the South China Sea. Late last month, President Trump’s national security advisor, Robert O’Brien, said the U.S. would no longer treat China as gently as previous administrations have. “The days of American passivity and naivety regarding the People’s Republic of China are over,” O’Brien told a group of Arizona business leaders in Phoenix. “America, under President Trump’s leadership, has finally awoken to the threat of the Chinese Communist Party’s actions and the threat they pose to our great way of life.” Wake Island appears to be factoring into the administration’s ‘confront China’ strategy. Sources include: NaturalNews.com TheDrive.com Britannica.com airfield, ballistic missile, China, Guam, missiles, national security, Navy, North Korea, Pacific Ocean, Pentagon, pivot to China, President Trump, refuel, runway, satellite photos, staging areas, Trump administration, United States, Wake Island, World War III](https://jellyfish.news/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Aircraft-Carrier-Ship-Navy-Military-Port-1-1-1024x768.jpg)
By JD Heyes While the news cycles continue to be dominated with coronavirus, domestic unrest, and the latest insult that an unhinged Democrat or Left-wing…
The absolute units would augment manned submarines, doing the dull and dangerous missions. BY KYLE MIZOKAMI | JUN 2, 2020 A Department of Defense…
BURNS HARBOR, Ind. — The Navy says it will commission its new USS Indianapolis combat vessel at a northwestern Indiana port Saturday. The ceremony marking the ship’s…
CFSCC’s mission includes executing “tactical control over globally dispersed Air Force, Army, and Navy space units that command satellites in every orbital regime.” By …