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The last time a hostile power put a base there at the end of a 6000km supply line, it took 18 months and thousands of casualties to cut them off.

Have you looked at what Mr. Obama did to our military capability? We are at a disadvantage right now with an administration that is ceding the initiative to pretty much anyone who wishes us ill.

[DoodleDawg]

The last time a hostile power put a base there at the end of a 6000km supply line, it took 18 months and thousands of casualties to cut them off.

They had a secure supply line stretching the length of the Solomons, through the Philippines and Taiwan, and up to Japan. China doesn't have that.