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When Bernard Brodie wrote his Guide to Naval Strategy in the early days of the Second World War, he emphasized that US naval operations in the Pacific had to secure bases close to the theater of operations around Japan in order to repair ships, resupply forces, and shift troops to a combat footing after traveling thousands of miles from the West Coast or even Hawaii.Footnote1 Today’s maritime strategists are in a better position when it comes to deterrence in the region. America’s friends and allies across the Indo-Pacific can provide US forces with facilities in peacetime, at the outset of a crisis, or during war.
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