The surviving Unangan community was not allowed to return to Attu after the war. Distance and the cost of protection were offered as practical reasons. Unequal treatment raises the question of whether authorities would have funded that protection for a different population. Permanent settlement also had strategic value, since maintaining a community and garrison could strengthen surveillance and the political claim to a remote maritime region.
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Attu displacement and strategic presence
The postwar refusal to restore Attu village displaced its Unangan community despite the strategic value of a permanent population.