Posted on 03/17/2016 5:54:45 AM PDT by C19fan
The Army plans to stockpile equipment in Vietnam, Cambodia, and other Pacific countries yet unnamed that will allow US forces to deploy there more rapidly, because key supplies and gear will already be in place. The new caches will be well inside what China considers its sphere of influence.
Army Materiel Command chief Gen. Dennis Via emphasized they will contain equipment for Humanitarian and Disaster Relief operations (HADR), not heavy armored vehicles that fill the rapidly growing European Activity Set. Still, the presence of an American Army cache in Vietnam would be dramatic. Americans best remember our defeat there 42 years ago, but Vietnam has fought a land war and multiple naval clashes with China. Beijing will not be pleased.
(Excerpt) Read more at breakingdefense.com ...
Here...lets advertise the locations of each and every “stockpile” we make.
We wouldn’t want to lose them.
If we were doing this...we should never advertise it.
Known as ‘giving away more stuff’.
It was bad enough that we got bogged down in the Mideast. Do we really want to fight another land war in Asia?
Sheesh, maybe we should provide the GPS coordinates for these locations.
Back to the Future, eh?
This would be a perfect opportunity to improve relations with India. I have it on good authority that Indians would like a closer relationship with the US, and would not necessarily be averse to storing prepositioned equipment, or even a manned base, and India is not only a primary target for China if they decide to go “lebensraum”, but is well-situated for direct access to China. The US could, ideally, link up with the Indian army, expand the existing jungle facility up in Mizoram into a joint base, and thus gain not only a place for prepositioned equipment, but close proximity to the Chinese border AND a world-class jungle and guerilla school (where US SF has already done some training).
In this case, I strongly agree with the Vizzini.
This stockpiling of equipment, looks like just the first step in mission creep to me.
We have a bunch of idiots, nincompoops and traitors disseminating such stories.
Those who are part of the military-industrial complex and manufacture military gear for profit probably think any policy that leads to more equipment
being used, given away, destroyed or left to rot was a good idea too.
We were warned about this 55 years ago by a republican president:
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought,
by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist."
-- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pffft... too late. And we are way beyond a military-industrial complex. We have the Washington cartel with politicians steering money into targeted corporations/industries only to see paid lobbyists channel a percentage of that money right back to the politicians.
While not everyone is corrupt, the system is now compromised and is corrupt. We are way past what Ike saw and warned about.
I’m not seeing any reason to prop up Vietnam. One of the worst possible scenarios for China would be an occupation of Vietnam, a country that has been hostile to China since the Ming dynasty.
“This would be a perfect opportunity to improve relations with India.”
I bet that’s happening - just more quietly.
In the event of hostilities, the US Army will never get to these weapons. It’s just stockpiling materiel for the locals or for the Chinese.
Time to restock the Long Binh PX.
hey ya means like we stockpiled weapons for ISIS.... duh
why is this information public... if its true
so now indurgents can get armed esaily at ussa expense... help your good selves..
asia spring
this is the crap you get wehn yo hire a community organizer front man for soros ... a nazi jew colllaborator
I’ll never consider Vietnam our friends until every prisoner is accounted for.
Back to Vietnam!
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