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This fight, combined with Midway, changed the war and sealed Tokyo’s fate.
Key point: This fight was brutal and it also showed how Imperial Japan would be unable to build enough ships to replace their losses. In fact, industrial might would be a major reason America would win the war.
The Battle of Leyte Gulf was a tough slog, where U.S. maritime forces reclaimed a beachhead in the Far East after being expelled in 1941-1942. In reality, Leyte Gulf was a series of naval engagements sprawling across the map of Southeast Asia. Three were centered on the gulf and its approaches, taking place in the San Bernardino Strait, the Surigao Strait and the waters off the island of Samar. A fourth pitted carrier fleets against each other in the open sea off Cape Engaño. Each ended in triumph for the U.S. Navy. The battle fulfilled General Douglas MacArthur’s vow to “return” to the Philippine Islands, but salving his wounded prestige was least among the fruits of victory. Victory conf
Could China Build a “Great Wall” of Anti-Ship Missiles?
China wants to deny others access to the South China Sea while keeping free access to trade and military routes for itself.
Key point: Washington knows that Beijing would love to push it completely out of the Western Pacific. Here is how America could try to prevent that from happening.
Suppose the United States and its allies erect a “Great Wall in reverse,” deploying anti-ship, anti-aircraft, and anti-submarine armaments on and around the islands constituting the first island chain.
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) will not submit meekly while the allies curb its freedom of movement between its home waters and the Western Pacific. Instead, PLA soldiers, sailors, and aviators will try to puncture, outflank, or otherwise nullify the wall, regaining access to the wider world. They must lest China forfeit the export and import trade that underwrites its “dream” of prosperity and national dignity, not to