{"id":144067,"date":"2024-10-26T20:39:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T10:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-chiefs-on-alaska\/"},"modified":"2024-10-26T20:39:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T10:39:54","slug":"us-air-force-chiefs-explain-why-alaska-is-a-hotbed-for-great-power-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=144067","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force Chiefs Explain Why Alaska Is A &#8216;Hotbed For Great Power Competition&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"136398\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states\/\"  >United States<\/a><\/span> finds itself in a new era of Great Power Competition, the Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) is becoming ever more important. One of PACAF&#8217;s major airbases is the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson base in             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"1997\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/alaska\/\"  >Alaska<\/a><\/span>, which is becoming a hotbed of that competition. The         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2033969\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-fast-facts-elmendorf-air-force-base-alaska\/\" >Joint Base Elemendorf-Richardson base is the largest US military installation in Alaska<\/a><\/span> and was recently visited by high-ranking Air Force officials. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the largest military base in Alaska, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson is now a center of Great Power Competition with China.<\/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":[396,628,412,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-fighter-jets","category-military","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144067","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=144067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144068,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144067\/revisions\/144068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}