B-52 Deployment to Guam, A 12-Hour Shadow Over Iran (opens in new tab)

The United States is once again moving one of its most symbolic and enduring strategic assets across the globe, deploying B-52 Stratofortress heavy bombers to Andersen Air Force Base, a location that has quietly become one of Washington’s most important forward nodes for long-range power projection. From Guam, the flight time required for a B-52 to reach Iran is roughly twelve hours, a number that sounds long until you realize it places almost the entire Middle East within steady, predictable...