Bloody Japan defeat a lesson for China and US

Some 29,000 Japanese troops, almost the entire force Tokyo put on Saipan, in the Northern Marianas, were killed. US losses totaled almost 3,000 dead and more than 10,000 wounded.It was a pivotal moment in the war. Soon after the Battle of Saipan, the US took the nearby islands of Tinian and Guam. On all three islands, the US built runways to accommodate heavy B-29 bombers, the biggest bombers in World War II.

Why it's so tense in the South China Sea 01:17"This is a major change," he adds, noting that such bases used to be thought of as"sanctuaries well outside Chinese strike range."Underscoring the seriousness of the matter, a 2018 report from the RAND Corp. think tank recommended joint US-Australia air defense exercises as a deterrent against any possible action from China.

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From china's perspective this returns the situation to 1900-era status quo. They ran their famous slave trade all the way down to Zamboanga for 500-1000 years. And really, that is the story the region needs to know about. Because what happened before will happen again.

Obama's time in the WH was a big loss for the US and its allies in the SEA. obama barackobama SouthChinaSea

Perhaps in paper the island building com military base of China in west Philippines sea is good but in actual shooting war China cant use it the way the Japanese use the island chain,China is facing modern armament warfare,can easily sink the artificial island

They were done either way. Poor analogy. I'm not dismissive of the importance of China trying to establish a choke point there, however.

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Battle of Saipan.

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