Liddell Hart cooked here ngl

and is reportedly repositioning “disaster relief supplies” onto the island. Woleai’s position less than 400 miles from Guam and well into the Second Island Chain raises an interesting set of strategic implications. Potential militarization of the facility, particularly in a Taiwan contingency, could

This is Woleai. It’s an island in the Federated States of Micronesia with a population of just over 1,000 and land area of less than 2 sq miles. The highest point is just 7 feet above sea level. Yet, this tiny island is the future of US-PRC competition in the Pacific.

states, like Fiji or Solomon Islands, as illustrated by this 2022 Financial Times graphic of PRC Foreign Minister’s Wang Yi’s travel in the region. As the PRC continues to erode at Canberra’s, Paris’s, Washington’s, and Wellington’s dominance of the region, it is important to consider the next 5/8

Islander equivalent of touching grass

This tweet is legit calling out to me like the Green Goblin mask

Comrades, we must increase Lynchpin morale and readiness dramatically in accordance with Charles Flynn Thought. Double the output of Lynchpin for General Clark and General McFarlane!