The author states, "Had Japan annihilated the rest of the Pacific Fleet carriers, it would have taken Midway. With land-based planes on Midway, it would have taken Hawaii. With Hawaii…well, who knows? Maybe San Francisco, maybe Alaska."
...and it's pretty damned tough to drive tanks across the Pacific. You are trying to make a point with apples and oranges...
Its not hard to drive ships across the Pacific. Our ship building capacity dwarfed Japan's. Note these tanks that we "drove" across the Pacific.
