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Air Force

Sullivan, NORTHCOM Favor Increased Alaskan Deterrence Build-Up

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, March 19th, 2025

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Sullivan, NORTHCOM Favor Increased Alaskan Deterrence Build-Up

A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor with the 525th Fighter Squadron takes off during the Red Flag-Alaska 24-3 Exercise at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska on Aug. 19, 2024 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

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…

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