Confidence Building in Leadership
by Lawrence Kadish • April 24, 2023 at 6:00 pm
Military analysts say that Guam could be overwhelmed by Chinese drones, missiles, and carrier-borne fighter-bombers to ensure that our extensive military outpost could not interfere with any potential invasion of Taiwan. Pictured: The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, is docked at Naval Base Guam in Apra Harbor on Monday, April 27, 2020. (Photo by Tony Azios/AFP via Getty Images)
Military journals report that the United States is preparing to make the Pacific island of Guam a veritable "fortress."
One suspects no one has used that phrase since the days just before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor when the United States finally woke up to the fact that the Land of the Rising Sun had every intention of owning the Pacific. History would go on to record that our decision to fortify Guam would come too late as our isolated defenders would eventually be forced to surrender to overwhelming enemy forces. Few would survive their imprisonment.
