Posted on 08/08/2024 11:45:22 PM PDT by blueplum
Up to 16,000 US Marines would by stationed in Australia's Top End by 2025 under a radical new defence plan.
A report by two think tanks has called for the US military presence in Darwin to be beefed up to 16,000 US Marines as one of the cheapest and quickest ways for Australia to deter potential enemies.
Currently 2,500 Marines are stationed at Robertson Barracks, Palmerston on a rotational basis ...
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Australia has a population of 25 million with around 85K active duty military. That's 1 military per 295 persons. If they increased recruitment they could reach the same ratio as the US - 1 military per 270 persons.
Instead of renting our Marines, why don’t we annex Australia and add a few states. Bet they’d love to gain the freedoms of our bill of rights.
and where do said Marines come from???
[Up to 16,000 US Marines would by stationed in Australia’s Top End by 2025 under a radical new defence plan.]
I mean....is no one...concerned?......at all.....????
That Australia might tip over and capsize?
[and where do said Marines come from???]
From the Marine store, silly
They’re 12 to a box. C’mon man!!
:)
I thought they were packed in a jar...
There is a SEATO pact, I wonder if this plus up falls under that.
Okinawa is drawing down, perhaps this is a shift.
you may be on to something there
This is an Australian proposal, being floated to Australians.
When making a pitch to the US I expect they will sell it as a logistics, etc. base, to be defended by Marines of course.
Australia doesn’t want to spend on defense. That is an unpopular policy in many countries. Some are coming around in the region, notably Japan.
Why would the US support an this stupid?
Maybe Australia paid off a drug addicted whore monger whose daddy is on the take in Washington - and it’s not Hunter this time.
No, they won’t. Aussies are not eager to join the US, at all.
I have quite a lot of family in Australia (Sydney). I was last there in 2019.
Figured. We’d do much better to buy Greenland as it only has 55,000 residents who might love to gain US citizenship.
There are a large number of Marines deployed in Asia-Pacific, and current plans are to deploy more, according to the strategic posture of the Corps, which is tasked as a holding force for islands in the Pacific rim. No more Tarawa-style beach assaults.
For instance, current plans for the Philippines (based on current agreements and military exercises) is to rapidly surge Marine units to fighting positions there, to man missile units and defend “fighting” airstrips. Those Marines and their gear will have to come from somewhere nearby. Guam and Okinawa are obvious places to keep these reserve forces, but Australia is potentially another.
It’s not a bad plan, on the whole.
The US could possibly have options to exploit Greenland if the greenie BS can be suppressed.
But those 55,000 are pretty much all welfare cases, just to be clear.
Philippines - good
It's full of nothing but wildlife that wants to kill you, and descendants of career criminals who were kicked out of the UK.
Our plans to counter China include a lot of US forces in the Indo-Pacific. Australia, Guam, Palau, East Timor, Philippines. Japan is slowly waking up and maybe South Korea and Taiwan will too. But as with Europe, we need those most threatened to take on the lions share of the burden.
Having been to Darwin a few times, 16,000 marines would be the best thing that ever happened to that town. It might take them a while to realize it , but ...
Invade, no. Pointless. Come to certain “agreements” with China, yes. Under the gun, or rather the missile. Australia is a huge cache of natural resources for China. Among other things its the closest source of useful quantities of coal, on which China depends.
An Australia that kowtows is yet another point of control of East Asian shipping, the object being to choke the trade of Japan and South Korea, to make them kowtow too.
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