US Reclaims WWII Airfield on Tinian Island to Counter China

Tinian, a remote Pacific island used by the US during World War II, is being refurbished by the Air Force to serve as a strategic platform against China. The project, part of the Pacific Deterrence Initiative, aims to revitalize North Field, once the launchpad for atomic bombs dropped on Japan, for modern combat operations in the Indo-Pacific region.

An overgrown airfield on a small island in the Pacific, once instrumental in America's role in ending World War II, is being reclaimed by the U.S. Air Force as it prepares for a future fight with .

The remote island of Tinian, which is less than 40 square miles, is one of three principal islands in the Northern Mariana Islands, a string of sparsely populated islets in the Western Pacific Ocean that make up the U.S. military power also is part of the thinking: the island is 1,500-1,700 miles from the Taiwan Strait as well as the contested East and South China seas, where Japan and the Philippines—two U.

S. treaty allies—have long-running territorial disputes with China.Today, China's Rocket Force possesses a variety of conventional and nuclear-armed missiles with a range of up to 3,400 miles.

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