{"id":110348,"date":"2024-08-19T12:27:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T02:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-project-power-overseas-bases\/"},"modified":"2024-08-19T12:27:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T02:27:22","slug":"us-air-force-feels-it-cant-continue-projecting-power-from-overseas-bases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=110348","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force Feels It Can&#8217;t Continue Projecting Power From Overseas Bases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <span style=\"box-sizing:border-box; margin:0px; padding:0px\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/us-air-force\/\">United States Air Force<\/a> has found itself in the middle of a new age of Great Power Competition. Now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/defence\/usaf-can-no-longer-count-on-overseas-bases-for-power-projection\/159575.article\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >FlightGlobal<\/a> has claimed: &#8220;<em>Overseas air bases can no longer be counted on as safe harbors for American aircraft forward deployed to conflict zones<\/em>.&#8221; This comes as the United States Air Force is building up its F-35As stationed in Japan while the Navy is replacing <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-navy-f-35s-japan-uss-george-washington-replacing-f\/a-18-hornets\/\">Super Hornets with F-35Cs on the <\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-navy-f-35s-japan-uss-george-washington-replacing-f\/a-18-hornets\/\">USS <em>George Washington<\/em> (CVN-73) as it returns to Japan<\/a>.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USAF needs to be more flexible and operate from a wider assortment of air bases over a wider area while coming under missile attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,628,412,2021,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-fighter-jets","category-military","category-training","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110479,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110348\/revisions\/110479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}