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2015-07-17 Southeast Asia

Philippines to Reopen Huge Old U.S. Naval Base

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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2015-07-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 OK, so after we left the mayor hired a private army to keep the looters out of subic. he turned it into an industrial port. The base housing was sold as vacation homes and the place was kept up to almost US standards. Subic city, sorry navy guys, was burned out. when you cross S&*t creek the place looks like a war zone, except for the VFW. A far different outcome to Clark.

Posted by 49 Pan 2015-07-17 00:29|| 2015-07-17 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like they did better with Subic than the Panamanians did with Balboa, Fort Clayton, and other U.S. facilities in Panama.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-07-17 02:36|| 2015-07-17 02:36|| Front Page Top

#3 ...For some years after we left, local politicos were telling the residents that it was all a bluff and that we were coming right back.

Gotta believe at least one is yelling, "I TOLD you so!!"

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2015-07-17 05:47|| 2015-07-17 05:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Prolly safe to say that both the Philippines + Vietnam [Cam Ranh Bay] are still not interested in offering China + PLA "sole" or joint/base-sharing rights on their soil.

* See TOPIX > [Xinhua] COMMENTARY: ITS TIME FOR MANILA [Philippine Govt] TO GIVE UP ITS FARCE OF ARBITRATION OVER SOUTH CHINA SEA.

* SAME > US PACIFIC FLEET ADMIRAL ASSURES ASIAN ALLIES, INCLUDING VIETNAM, THAT US FORCES ARE READY FOR CONTINGENCY.

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > WILL NOT RECOGNIZE INTERNATIONAL PANEL RULING ON DISPUTED SOUTH CHINA SEA: CHINA - PTI.

* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > US THINK-TANK EXPERT LOHMAN: US-PHILIPPINE SECURITY TREATY ALLOWS US TO INITIATE MORE FORCEFUL, SHORT-OF-WAR/CONFRONTATION DIRECT ACTIONS IN SUPPORT OF ITS PHILIPINE ALLY AGZ CHINA IN DISPUTED SOUTH CHINA SEA.

Nice, Gentlemen, but unfortunately its Anti-US US OWG Globalist, US-N-Only-The-US "Retreat/Fallback is OWG + World Peace" POTUS Obama that gives the USDOD its Marching = War orders.

* CHINA MILITARY FORUM > [National Interest] JAPAN'S FOLLY [WW2 = Year 1942] COULD BE CHINA'S GAIN IN WAR AGZ AMERICA.

Nippon + tech-superior IJN still could've defeated the post-Pearl Harbor US in 1942 iff it had employed a better submarine strategy agz the still-weak US + USN.

* WORLD NEWS, BIGNEWSNETWORK > CHINA BUILDING NEW [military-capable]OFFSHORE PLATFORM, + JAPAN IS WORRIED IT COULD BE USED AS A BASE FOR DRONES [+ Radars, Armed Helos, Other PLA assets] | JAPAN WARNS CHINA BUILDING NEW MILITARY-USABLE PLATFORM IN EAST CHINA SEA.

"Sea Forts" - IMO all the PLA needs to do now is based LR MISSLE-ARMED ARSENAL/FIRE SHIPS around these forts to assert sea control???

Lest we fergit, KUWAITI TANKER REFLAGGING = the 1980's Reagan-Bush 41 Admin ordered the USDOD to attack unused andor converted oil rigs deemed held, armed by the Iran IRGC out of fear these could be used to attack international oil, commodity transhipments flowing in-or-out of the Persian Gulf.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-07-17 23:30|| 2015-07-17 23:30|| Front Page Top

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