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2011-10-27 China-Japan-Koreas

Panetta Affirms Commitment to ROK Defense

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Posted by Steve White 2011-10-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 SECDEF LEON ...

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* GUAMPDN FORUMS > STILL THINK THE MARINES ARE COMING!? | [Human Events] "CATASTROPHIC" DEFENCE CUTS SEEN AS TIPPING POINT OF US MILITARY SUPREMACY.

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> Few iff any jobs for returning US GWOT veterans.
> US Defense spending to be at its lowest since end of WW2.
> Potential end of credible US Nuclear Deterrence.

IIUC, IOW US enemies will no longer fear either US Conventional andor Nuclear Military Power, a poten development which Maha-Rushian Limbaugh World Histoire' says tends to result in various MilPol Aggressions or Belligerencies, etc. by "Young Turk" = "Wannabe" Great Powers.

FYI a prominent local Guam restaurant patron orally informed me that his sources say the US Marines from Okinawa may not come to Guam until the Year 2046.

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* TOPIX > CBO: TOTAL COST OF IRAQ WAR [since start of 2003 OP Iraqi Freedom] LESS THAN FAILED OBAMA STIMULUS BILL.

* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > US TO EXPAND AUSTRALIA PRESENCE TO COUNTER CHINA.

* SAME > AUSMIN PUT ICING ON [US-Aus Security, Mil Cooper]ALLIANCE CAKE.

* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM [old] > CHINA + WEST AUSTRALIA BYPASS CANBERRA IN HISTORIC TRADE DEAL. WEST AUS Premier Collin Barrett "offended" by Gillard's Govt, Policies vee WEST AUS Region].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-10-27 01:35|| 2011-10-27 01:35|| Front Page Top

#2 More ....

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Global Times OPED = China] TIME TO TEACH THOSE AROUND THE SOUTH CHINA SEA A [military = war] LESSON. The Spratlys = South China Sea, Energy, Vietnam + Philippines + India versus respect for China + China's sovereignty oer same.

* SAME > VITENAM, PHILIPPINES EYE ALLIANCE [agz China]IN SPRATLY'S ROW: PHILSTAR.

* TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > VIETNAM TO SUPPORT PHILIPPINES SEA PEACE ZONE PLAN IN DISPUTED ISLANDS.

* Also from BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Aviation Week & Space Technology] AW&ST: CHINA EXPANDS ITS MILITARY REACH. Slowly, but most assuredly = determinatively.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-10-27 01:45|| 2011-10-27 01:45|| Front Page Top

#3 The man is writing checks on an account that is already overdrawn, while the Donks in Congress are about to drain it even further. Severe penalties will apply in the final accounting [as usual].

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-10-27 08:49|| 2011-10-27 08:49|| Front Page Top

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