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There are several lessons that could be applied to a modern war with China today. Key point: There are three important take away from that costly, but effective, campaign. Here is how America won and would win again. This year marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. The battle is one of seven naval engagements that together with hard-ground fighting on the part of the U.S. Marines and Army make up a six-month bloodletting known to history as Guadalcanal. It’s a struggle replete with insights into martial strategy and operations. There are three big ideas that come out of studying the Solomon Islands campaign. First of all, the physical setting may impel strategic and operational deliberations. The Solomon Islands is a chute of an island chain. Guadalcanal constitutes its southeastern terminus, while the Japanese fortress at Rabaul lay just beyond its northwestern terminus in yesteryear. The Solomons commands little intrinsic value apart from

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