The US Marine Corps on Thursday formally opened a new military base in the US territory of Guam as part of Washington’s military buildup in the Asia Pacific that is aimed at China.
The base is still under construction but will eventually house 5,000 US Marines, likely by the end of 2024. According to The Wall Street Journal, the purpose of the base is to prepare for a potential war with China in the islands of the western Pacific Ocean.
David Berger, the commandant of the Marine Corps, said that US Marines would be the first to be deployed in the event of a war with China. “We don’t want to fight to get to the fight. We want to already be inside, so if there’s a conflict, the stand-in forces are already forward,” he said.
The Marine Corps has been revamping to better prepare for war with China by creating units that are more mobile and can quickly move around islands in the region. The US is deploying one of these units, known as a Marine Littoral Regiment, to Okinawa by 2025, which will be armed with anti-ship missiles.
According to Kyodo News, the new base in Guam will host 4,000 US Marines that will be transferred from Okinawa. The US and Japan agreed to reduce the military burden on Okinawa, which hosts over 70% of US bases in Japan, over local opposition to the US presence. But the plans to deploy the Marine Littoral Regiment further entrenches the military presence in the Okinawa prefecture.
There is also local opposition to the expansion of the US military presence in Guam, as Kyodo reported anti-base demonstrators protested against the opening of the new Marines Corps facility. An activist said that the military buildup will make Guam “a target for a war that we didn’t want to be part of.”
Advanced planning for future wars….Seems like a bad omen.
When the US where soundly beaten in Vietnam , US commanders said America will never fight another jungle war , because they are no good at it , they said baring in mind this was 50 plus years ago we are going to prepare for war in Europe where we can use tanks and infantry .
” US commanders said America will never fight another jungle war , because they are no good at it” I’m sure some commanders might have said that. However the US arm forces responds to failure by getting better at thing they failed at. Not running away from them.
That is what armies do in peace time. Plan for the next war. Sometimes they do it right and sometimes not so good.
The days of island hopping is over. Once nukes fly, those bases will starve to death.
What a collosal waste of money, just like our other military bases. China isn’t interested in using force on the disputed South China Seas Islands one bit. Let’s go pollute up Guam just like we ruined Oahu and Okinawa and give the locals cancer causing water. All the beautiful places on this earth we ruined for the sake of imperialism…
Guam has been dominated by US military activity and installations for a long time. Bases cover much of the island already and the military and tourism from Japan are the key drivers of the economy.
And the island ecology is already a huge mess. But I hear the brown snakes are gone.
One of my wife’s friends just got back from a vacation on Guam. I have not talk to her about her experience but my wife tells me that the vacation was “so-so”. What ever that means.
Well, at least the island didn’t tip over while she was there, or you’d likely have heard about that part.
From the mainland US? That’s a looong trip for a so-so vacation. I hear shipwreck divers like the place, though.
Because she loves to travel and she has been to so many places in her life that she decided to try this one. When you been to every major vacations spots multiple times you try something new.
Were Marines constantly trying to pick her up?
Well she is cute, but she is also 65. So maybe some of the senior officers?
US Marines in Asia and the Pacific Rim have made the area rife with prostitution and sexual harassment.
Okinawa is special. There are more than 34,000 Marines stationed there. Sex shops abound.
WTF 34,000 marines stationed in Okinawa ?
WTF maybe they will subjugate the Japanese peoples.
wait, WTF
Quam Would be ash no sooner hostilities broke out .
Ringing China with token military forces, infantry no less, is absolutely the best thing the US government could do to keep the Chinese government firmly in control of its people. The US government has to manufacture external threats to keep its people obedient but the Chinese government doesn’t. The US government hands them threats on a silver platter.
Ted you are right about the Chinese government using external threats to keep their people inline. The whole Taiwan situation is just that.
“The whole Taiwan situation” is the open wound of a civil war that the US government created and maintains for its own purpose.
That is like 70 plus years ago. Time to close that wound and move on. The simple fact is the current population of Taiwan has no interested in joining China. Mainline China has bigger problems to solve than to “finish” a war that ended 70 years.
The Chinese nation reckons time in millennia, and the war there is no more over than the one in Korea. I personally wish the Taiwanese all the independence they can hang onto, but if a percentage favors independence from the mainland it’s because the US froze the island by force in 1950. It wasn’t our business than and it isn’t our business now. It is in everyone’s interest for us to butt out.
“It is in everyone’s interest for us to butt out.” I don’t think Taiwanese feel that way. I’m sure they don’t want to be run over by the mainland.
Taiwanese think all sorts of things. And there are more than a few Vietnamese, Lebanese, Libyans, Afghanis, Iraqis, Somalis, Syrians, etc., and a growing number of Ukrainians who could have done with less American help, particularly the dead ones. Taiwan is headed the same place as Hong Kong, and the less blood the better.
US credibility is falling apart in Taiwan society, thanks to Washington itself
No cognitive warfare or public opinion manipulation is needed. Taiwan residents can see it by themselves.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202301/1284377.shtml
Moving on is how we ignore the fact that our nation has been at war for all calendar years excepting 22. By all means we should just forget this and think happy thoughts 😉
Taiwan population is split between mainland and keeping independence. It’s not unanimous.
We real Americans, known as the men and women born upon the 50 states, (not as PERSONS/Persons/persons) are becoming increasingly certain that “a fake U.S. government” has taken real true Americans and converted them into “things identified” and now we continue to see these “things” being used to continue to keep false government in false power, waiving false flags, and creating false wars for false profits to benefit false leaders and false corporations staffed by false groups of false people.
What is true?
What is false?
True = America had gotten itself usurped over 160 years ago by criminals who’ve managed to keep using liar lawyers to attorn for these criminals
False = the way of life of peaceful Americans in our republican way of life is under attack by people from other countries
True = the phony democracy propped up by phony people who’ve continued to destroy other countries (in our good names) is what is under attack – the real true Americans have no interest in beating up on the planet of good people
False = the mainstream news media can be relied upon to keep us informed about what is really going on
True = Americans are taking back this country beginning with capturing back our stolen identities, then reconstructing our dejure state assemblies.
Question: Is Melania Trump a real American by your definition?
Real Americans are those born upon the land of the 50 states proper. By definition, no, Melania is not a real American, but a naturalized immigrant and married to an American.
We real Americans, known as the men and women born upon the 50 states, (not as PERSONS/Persons/persons) are becoming increasingly certain that “a fake U.S. government” has taken real true Americans and converted them into “things identified” and now we continue to see these “things” being used to continue to keep false government in false power, waiving false flags, and creating false wars for false profits to benefit false leaders and false corporations staffed by false groups of false people.
What is true?
What is false?
True = America had gotten itself usurped over 160 years ago by criminals who’ve managed to keep using liar lawyers to attorn for these criminals
False = the way of life of peaceful Americans in our republican way of life is under attack by people from other countries
True = the phony democracy propped up by phony people who’ve continued to destroy other countries (in our good names) is what is under attack – the real true Americans have no interest in beating up on the planet of good people
False = the mainstream news media can be relied upon to keep us informed about what is really going on
True = Americans are taking back this country beginning with capturing back our stolen identities, then reconstructing our dejure state assemblies.
US Marines Open New Base
LOL the entire island is about 30 miles from one end to the other.
uncle sam probably already has multiple missile launchers there.
“opening a new base”!
exclamation point = me.
hey lets set up a missile launching site on top of our existing missile launching site.
idiots.
This “new” base has been years in the making so nothing new here.
Aholes will do what Aholes are ordered to do.
That’s cute. US still wants to be relevant in the Pacific.
The American quasi-government, its pair of federal subcontractors, and its 185,000 municipal town,city,county,state franchises have all turned out to be an enormous waste of money. None of this is what actual true Americans wanted. We’ve all been press-ganged and steam-rollered. The age of waking up to the hoodwink is upon us. Just look at cafr1.com to see where trillions of dollars are blocked from view. Just look at usavsus.info to see the duality smack us in the face. Just look at organiclaws.org to see that we’ve been deliberately undereducated about the founding documents.