US military presence in the PH

The solution to the tanker problem the US military keeps finding in Pacific wargames

As planners look for ways to keep fuel flowing across the Indo-Pacific battlespace, the concern is whether large tanker aircraft operating from a handful of vulnerable bases can survive the opening days of a conflict. The worry is not merely theoretical. A 2023 Congressional Research Service report examining US military operations in the Indo-Pacific highlighted...

US military presence in the PH

The US military is spreading its forces, equipment, and logistics across multiple sites nationwide instead of concentrating them in a few large bases, to make them harder to locate, target, and disable simultaneously. In effect, this makes the whole Philippines a target for foreign military strikes.