Manga babes in stars-and-stripes bikinis?

Here's an interesting article about the U.S. Navy using manga to explain its presence to the Japanese people. Er... I'm having some trouble imagining how a storyline could be built around this concept, but I sincerely hope that I will one day have a chance to read it.

Note: According to this website, the cute little dude in this picture is called Prince Pickles. I'd google his name to find out more about him, but I'm not sure I want to see the websites that a search string called "prince pickles" would turn up.