How the U.S. Navy Could Beat China in a War

During its westward advance across the Pacific, the U.S. Navy fashioned techniques and hardware to refuel, resupply, and repair ships from dispersed, often improvised island bases.The allies should ransack history for insight—thinking ahead about how to use Japan’s many islands and inlets as impromptu logistics hubs.After all, the conventionally powered surface fleets based in Japan need fuel too.