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| Panetta Affirms Commitment to ROK Defense | |
| 2011-10-27 | |
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has reaffirmed the American commitment to protect South Korea against provocations from the North. Panetta's comments came Wednesday, in an address to U.S. troops shortly after arriving in Seoul on the final leg of an Asian tour.
Panetta has delivered a similar message throughout his tour, which included stops in Indonesia and Japan. On his arrival in Japan on Monday, he promised the United States will not reduce its military presence in East Asia in spite of coming budget cuts at home. Panetta's Tokyo talks also dealt with controversial plans to transfer a key U.S. military base in Okinawa to another location on the island. Japanese Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa told him Tuesday that Japan will complete an environmental assessment on the plan by the end of this year. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #1 SECDEF LEON ... versus * GUAMPDN FORUMS > STILL THINK THE MARINES ARE COMING!? | [Human Events] "CATASTROPHIC" DEFENCE CUTS SEEN AS TIPPING POINT OF US MILITARY SUPREMACY. ARTIC = ... > 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. versus * 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 |