The Pentagon’s Pacific assets, fleets and air bases, have reportedly shifted from a few large potential targets for enemies from the World War II era to multiple smaller launching points to keep “big juicy” targets from the top threat in the region: China.

The U.S. Air Force has called the shift in strategy Agile Combat Employment (ACE), an effort to keep a country like China from targeting large U.S. military assets, if not allowing for stealth deployment of defense aircraft or bombers in a potential outbreak of World War III, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The U.S. territory of the tiny island of Tinian is being built to permit stealth runways, and the move away from large air bases from the World War II era would keep China from using its large missile arsenal to quickly take out large swaths of assets in the region if  World War III were to erupt, according to the Journal.

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