You go in NOT INTENDING TO STAY for one thing. Battlefield Prep is an extension of IBP, intelligence battlefield preparation. To me, that means that “winning hearts and minds’ shouldn’t be on the table’ for a long stay” Regardless of ‘from where’ the logistics support comes, it takes more for occupation.
The AF, Army - whichever service is always harping about their need for this or that weapons system to drop in (transported by A/C) at a moment’s notice. And now you say we have to have multiple foreign installations to do that?
How many people do you think it would take to parachute in from California or wherever to defeat China, or North Korea, or Russia, or whoever?