Adak Island, the site of a former Navy base closed in 1997 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, may see military reuse to aid U.S. posture in the Indo-Pacific. The Aleutian island became the site of an Army Air Corps base in August, 1942 after Pearl Harbor and the Japanese occupation of the neighboring islands of Attu and Kiska--the first foreign occupation since the War of 1812 of territory belonging to the continental U.S. The military, citing the Japanese…
