Alaska
With New F-35s, Remote Alaska Base Protects Most ‘Strategic Place in the World’
Russia’s conflict in Ukraine is now in its fourth month, and extra U.S. troops have headed to Europe to defend NATO’s japanese flank. However the rising risk from Russia and China has the U.S. trying not solely east, but in addition to the far north. VOA Pentagon correspondent Carla Babb took to the Arctic skies of Alaska for an unique take a look at the U.S. army’s multibillion-dollar transformation of the distant Eielson Air Power Base. Digicam: Mike Burke