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if Japan shoulders most of the burden of its defense while America provides the alliance’s striking arm—then U.S. forces will enjoy a sanctuary from which to prosecute combat operations in Taiwan’s vicinity. Sanctuary is oftentimes a pivotal ingredient of victory in a hard-run conflict. You try to create it for yourself while denying it to antagonists.

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Dr James R Holmes, J. C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and a Nonresident Fellow at the Brute Krulak Center for Innovation & Future Warfare, Marine Corps University.

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Using Japan as an aircraft carrier/forward base is important for the US, so that any military response would then target the Japan mainland and not the United States itself.

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This is how they think. Japan is just cannon fodder for US global ambitions. Look at Ukraine for reference.

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This is how they think. Japan is just cannon fodder for US global ambitions. Look at Ukraine for reference.

China is acting like a spoiled baby in the region trying to constantly assert military dominance over surrounding nations. The US stepping in to guarantee security for its allies is hardly a surprise. You acting like this is some grand conspiracy by the US is completely disingenuous.

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I have no idea of what that quote means.

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