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The Marine Corps has put in a request for funding to expand its training bases in the Indo-Pacific region, to areas including training ranges on training ranges on Tinian, Pagan and separate islands in the Northern Marianas. And Congress wants to review the request.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/07\/01\/congress-wants-a-review-of-the-corps-plan-to-distribute-forces-across-the-indo-pacific\/<\/a><\/p>\n There is construction underway on Guam, per the article. One obstacle to this disbursement across the Indo-Pacific region is transportation, which includes amphibious shipping and sea surface lift capacity. Reducing the presence of Marines on Okinawa is part of the plan to return the territory to local government, and will also reduce the possibility that China will target that island with missiles. This applies to distributing US forces across the wider areas of US territories in the Pacific.<\/p>\n This link pertains to the hearing on moving Marines off Okinawa to Guam, and the transportation requirements involved in sending them where needed. \u00a0https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/05\/03\/marine-corps-relocation-from-okinawa-to-guam-worthy-of-review-commandant-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n If you aren’t keeping up with what China is doing, the government of China under Xi JinPing is aggressively pursuing an expansion into all of South Asia, with a goal of dominating and controlling the entire area.\u00a0 China’s expansion is not going away. Look at the electronic stuff you have and calculate how much of it contains functioning parts that require rare earths to do the job. It also applies to your household appliances and some of the parts in vehicles now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"