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| Japan, U.S. Finishing Plans for New Radar |
| 2006-03-03 |
| Japanese and U.S. military officials are finalizing plans to deploy a radar system for a missile shield at a Japanese air force base in northern Japan, defense officials said Friday. The high-resolution radar system, aimed at detecting and intercepting ballistic missiles, is to be deployed at the Shariki base in Tsugaru, Aomori prefecture, about 360 miles northeast of Tokyo. ... Japan's Defense Facilities Administration Agency said the two countries are still finalizing the plan as part of ongoing talks on a broader realignment of U.S. military bases in Japan. Japan and the United States will hold talks next week on the realignment, which would reduce the U.S. military presence on a southern Japanese island and give Tokyo greater responsibility for security in the Asia-Pacific region, defense and Foreign Ministry officials said Friday. ... During the five-day talks beginning Tuesday in Honolulu, Hawaii, the two sides will discuss details of an October realignment agreement that includes a proposal to shift 7,000 U.S. Marines from Okinawa to the U.S. territory of Guam, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. This is good news. Yesterday I was thinking of posting a comment about moving all the Marines out of Okinawa to Guam. Guam is about 1/2 the size of Okinawa but has 1/9th the population and will give the Marines some room to train. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #1 There's also TINIAN and SAIPAN islands in the Northern Marianas - the Mayor of Tinian has told the local MARIANAS VARIETY and other medias that he would like to see Marines or some other type of military-based economy come to Tinian. In any case, North Korea's beating the rhetoric drums of war but its China and its PLAAF that doing all the buzzing and penetrating of Japanese airspace for the Norkies. STRATEGYPAGE.com reports that China's PLAN are expanding their surface warfare and UNREP naval actvities, inferring that China's intent is for its PLAN assets to engage in long patrols of areas claimed or occupied by China. A scenario still exists that any US-led mil action ags North Korea proper may likely also involve TAIWAN. With both China and NK claiming to have missles that can hit the US West Coast-MidWest, and eventually all of the USA, Guam as the closest US territory to Asia should be the first choice for at least one, or more, Nimitz-class BG and MAG/MRG. China cannot hope to successfully confront or par the USN in the Pacific unless she controls or dominates the major island groups in the Western and Central Pacific, which by extens also means in LT a play for control of Hawaii. We already know from the 2005 Chinese White Paper that a minima of 1/2 of CONUS is already desired as future Chinese territory, plus the pre-planned destruction of 200M, plus-minus, of Amer's 300M population. THE ONLY WAY FOR CHINA/COMMIES TO BYPASS CONTROL OF THE PACIFIC IS TO WAGE FULL-FLEDGE WAR ON CONUS-NORAM ITSELF, IDEALLY WITH ANTI-AMERICAN AMERICANS IN THE WH AND CONGRESS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-03-03 23:47 |