Are you serious? There's not ONE SQUARE INCH of storage space on DG. Material started moving there since before the first of the year.......I'm sure even before anyone knew exactly where it would finally end up.
Once this marterial moves out, they'll start moving in avgas, bombs, aircrews/aircraft (the big ones:) and spare aviation parts.
It's a decent natural harbor with much improved docking/cargo facilities and the best transhipment point in the Indian Ocean.
It's just part of the "Pony Express" model of material movement.....Hawaii, Filipines, Singapore and DG....so whatever material has to be finally positioned by air can be done so very quickly, substantially reducing our "flight hour per ton" ratio and making up for substantial reductions in our airlift capacity.
It's alot easier to move a few million tons 1500miles quckly that to move it 10,000miles quckly. 1/10 the time. The first gulf war took us 6 months to move all the material......consider an armed force 1/2 that size moving material 1/7th the distance.
We could assault a few beaches and airports and have a full assault corps moving through the desert in two weeks.
Not that we would do that mind you.......it's just that we COULD if we wanted to:)
Wars are won through practice, training, weapons and logistics.
We have the best such institutional support on all 4 fronts. Each new victory brings both the momentum of marvel and fear into the face of every world citizen. They all know we can do whatever we wish whenever we wish and they'll never stop hating us for it, whether our acts are for good or evil.
Bush's next campaign song should be "I did it myyyyy way" :)
Yep.