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2006-05-20 Home Front: WoT

Foreign Policy: Six most important US military bases. Not the Cold War ones!

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Posted by 3dc 2006-05-20 12:22|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hmmm...Gitmo -> Cuban Missile Crisis, Guam -> Vietnam. Two Cold War bases.

Posted by Hupotle Greretch7903 2006-05-20 13:30|| 2006-05-20 13:30|| Front Page Top

#2
Manas AFB Kirgizstan, That is an interesting choice. What is really going on there??

Posted by Rob 2006-05-20 13:56|| 2006-05-20 13:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh man. Some people are going to be asking a lot of questions about Kirgizstan.

Here's the only clue I'm going to give you. Look at a map.

Posted by Oldspook 2006-05-20 14:14|| 2006-05-20 14:14|| Front Page Top

#4 I would have to make an odd addition to the foreign bases: San Diego. This is because it and Bremerton, Washington are the only two naval bases the US has that are capable of major repairs and all the support missions of the US Navy, Pacific Fleet.

This remains a very weak part of our Pacific operations, thus making these two, and especially San Diego, critical.

In the future, I suggest that Alaska may have the next major deep-water port facility for Pacific support, if either of these two bases become unsatisfactory.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-05-20 14:27|| 2006-05-20 14:27|| Front Page Top

#5 FYI, Manas is the name of the Airport. The base name is something different.

And I beg to difffer onthe importatnce - this is a good geolcated place, but there are other options to Ganci.

Posted by Oldspook 2006-05-20 14:34|| 2006-05-20 14:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Hey!
Where's Fort Bliss?

Posted by 6 2006-05-20 15:30|| 2006-05-20 15:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Hell - where's Fort Knox?

Posted by Whaling Angaviper8380 2006-05-20 15:44|| 2006-05-20 15:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Hey! Where's Fort Bliss?

Currently being realigned for Minuteman confinement , so that the "Unregistered Aliens" will have unfettered acces to your Social Security, School taxes and hospital zone taxes.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839">AlmostAnonymous5839 2006-05-20 17:31|| 2006-05-20 17:31|| Front Page Top

#9 Nah ... if the Minutemen are sent to Bliss it'll be so they can pick up on the training schools there, including the Mil Intel UAV recon group. They need a job anyway since Aviation is owning UAVs now.

Posted by lotp 2006-05-20 17:35|| 2006-05-20 17:35|| Front Page Top

#10 9-11 > America's enemies told America that America either unilater and unconditionally accepts Socialism and SOcialist OWG/World Order, or Amer will be destroyed, which Dubya rightly re-interpreeeeted as America. solely or jointly wid our Allies, either de facto rules the world, or America[West] will be destroyed. Hey, America enemies INSIST WE + WEST RULE THE WORLD, which is a major reason the Lefties wants America post-WOT to voluntarily give up its newfound empire, or be forcibly made to by "the World Community", besides our sovereignty, freedoms, independence, and control of our own Govt. + domestic affairs/endowments, ala "America must obey the world community/UNO". O'REILLY > ULTRA/FAR LEFT = CONTROL DEM PARTY = AMERICA MUST BE ANTI-SOVEREIGN AND LOCALLY/DOMESTICALLY GOVERNED BY A COALITION OF WORLD STATES, WHERE AMERICA IS JUST ONE STATE + AGENDA AMONGST MANY. More popularly known as COMMUNISM, which the chicken little Left is too chicken andor PC to say openly - Its NOT SOCIALISM or COMMUNISM but SSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHH
"ANTI-FASCISM", i.e.anti-Rightist, National SOCIALISM, sub i.e. Left > America is a [LEFT]SOCIALIST country, whether Americans want it or not, like it or not, know it or not, and its not the Left's or Govt's fault they didn't tell you.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-05-20 21:34|| 2006-05-20 21:34|| Front Page Top

#11 Guam > KOREA, where Truman secretly expedited and ordered delivery of approxi several dozen nuclear bombs + additional bombers in case of need against China; and CUBA - ditto nuclear-armed bombers + subs against USSR. What is not well--known that is during KOREA the USAF sent survey teams to the Northern Marianas islands of TINIAN and SIAPAN, espec TINIAN, in case their WW2 airfields + harbors would be needed in support of a nuclear campaign against China. During CUBA + Vietnam, the USDOD gave thought to basing IRBM missle units on Guam's Northwest airfield + Northern Marianas areas, but didn't go through with it.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-05-20 21:46|| 2006-05-20 21:46|| Front Page Top

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