B-1 bombers headed to Australia

[Nike]

1193 articles, like hell it can be used as argumentation between nations.

Effective occupation, settling it with population, economic and military activity and voting by Arbitrary council in Den Haag, is ways to settle border dispute.

 

[jhungary]

Not according to the USA Embassy in Australia.

https://twitter.com/x/status/599043789311909888

However, even if it does, it will not deter China from safeguarding its sovereignty in SCS.

The US is sending B-1 bomber from Guam, they are to patrol South Pacific and that include the Airspace and Territorial water of Australia.

What you quote is US Embassy saying US is NOT GOING TO rotate B-1 Bomber and STATION them in Australia, those two are different term.

US is sending B1 down under, they are not station them downunder

 

[Hindustani78]

Not according to the USA Embassy in Australia.

https://twitter.com/x/status/599043789311909888

However, even if it does, it will not deter China from safeguarding its sovereignty in SCS.

B1 bombers in Australia or not, Beijing sees a chance to harden line on disupted territory | afr.com

Under heated questioning from Senators worried about Chinese territorial reclamations in the South China Sea, David Shear let slip that the US will place extra air force assets including B-1 bombers and surveillance aircraft in Australia to deter "China's destabilising effect" on the region.

The remarks were the latest evidence of Australia being stranded in the middle of an intensifying military rivalry between its most important economic and strategic partners; China and the US.

Within minutes, Chinese government officials were on the telephone to Canberra demanding an explanation and publicly dressing down the Americans.

The Pentagon now says Shear – an Asia policy expert but relatively new to the defence portfolio – "misspoke".

Yet under new Defence Secretary Ashton Carter, who is perceived to be taking a harder line against Chinese aggression, the Pentagon was hardly backing down.

"We will be operating a mix of additional air force assets in Australia on a rotational basis, including fighter, bomber, and tanker aircraft," the Pentagon said in a clarifying statement.

In nuanced defence speak, a B-1 bomber, as opposed to a more general bomber, sparks alarm because "you're implying that you're expecting a pretty hot war," says John Lee, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington.

"The B-1 is a very heavy, hot piece of war asset that you would use in a fairly major conflict."

"The Department of Defense clarification statement [still] intends to signal the Americans are ready for all contingencies."

What surprised the Australians probably was not that the US was interested in possibly deploying B-1 assets. Rather, that Canberra should be caught off guard by such a public declaration, even if it was later described as a misspeak at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.

As part of its "rebalance" to Asia, the US already has several thousand marines stationed in Darwin and airforce and navy assets in other parts of Australia and broader Asia.

The Chinese "are very worried that the marines based in Darwin 8000 miles from Beijing are pointed like a dagger into the heart of China," former US assistant secretary of state, Kurt Campbell, said in a speech in Washington in September 2014.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott seemed caught on the back foot on Friday, trying to placate Beijing by saying the US-Australia alliance "is not aimed at anyone".

Yet defence experts in Canberra and Washington say it is virtually certain the US and Australia have privately broached the B-1 idea among a range of military options. Shear would undoubtedly have been aware of such discussions, and in the heat of the moment perhaps strayed from his formal pre-briefing notes and been more specific than intended.

 

[name]

Indian Ocean belongs entirely to India.

India and Indian ocean to small .. .. gulf of mexico, ocean, small east near large water .. completely different ... Indian buffalo tongue dare draw full indian ocean? ... Drawing cow tongue in the East Sea, the Gulf of Mexico it might make sense ... indian ocean too large one dared draw ??

 

[Hindustani78]

 

[sword1947]

Word plays, buddy. The US will ENFORCE freedom of navigation in the SCS.

well, we know games in Iraq & Afghanistan can't satisfy you any more, so you need some ultimate games in SCS & Ukraine that can make you high, right?

 

[gambit]

well, we know games in Iraq & Afghanistan can't satisfy you any more, so you need some ultimate games in SCS & Ukraine that can make you high, right?

Right.

 

[Hindustani78]

B-52s deploy to Colombia, Australia for training
July 9, 2015
A B-52H Stratofortress is marshalled to a stop on Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, after returning from a mission to Australia.(Photo: Senior Airman Benjamin Raughton/Air Force)

B-52 crews are once again showing that there is nowhere in the world where bad guys can hide from the long arm of U.S. airpower.

On Thursday, a B-52 from the 5th Bomb Wing left Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, for a 16-hour flight to and from Colombia, according to U.S. Strategic Command.

The Stratofortress was to practice with the Colombian air force and then take part in a flyover at the Feria Aeronautica Internacional Rionegro (F-AIR) Colombia 2015 International Air Show, STRATCOM announced.

"Our support to Colombia is based on more than just a shared history; it is based on Colombia's enduring importance to our national security," Marine Gen. John Kelly, head of U.S. Southern Command, said in Thursday's news release. "Training missions such as these ensure effective cooperation between our countries."

In August, a B-52 participated in SOUTHCOM's Exercise PANAMAX, the news release said. The U.S. also sent a B-52 to F-AIR Colombia International Air Show in 2006 and a B-1B Lancer to the airshow in 2008.

Separately, two B-52s from the 2nd Bomb Wing returned to Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, on July 2 after flying 44 hours to Australia and back, STRATCOM announced in a Tuesday news release.

"These flights are one of the many ways the U.S. demonstrates its commitment to a stable and peaceful Indo-Asia Pacific region," Navy Adm. Cecil Haney, head of STRATCOM, said in the news release.

The two B-52s worked with Royal Australian Air Force ground forces to drop inert ordnance on the Delamere Air Weapons Range and to perform a low approach at RAAF Base Tindal, said Army Lt. Col. Martin O'Donnell, a spokesman for STRATCOM.

"Missions such as these demonstrate the ability of the U.S. bomber force to provide a credible, flexible, and always-ready capability to respond to a variety of potential threats and situations, both conventionally and strategically, when called to do so," O'Donnell said in an email to Air Force Times.

The training mission was not part of Talisman Sabre 2015, a massive exercise involving more than 33,000 U.S. and Australian troops that is expected to run until July 19, O'Donnell said.

U.S. strategists are concerned about China's development of cruise and ballistic missiles, which could threaten U.S. aircraft carriers and air bases in the Pacific if the two countries went to war.

When asked if the B-52 mission to Australia was meant to signal to China that U.S. airpower has the range to reach targets from the U.S. if necessary, O'Donnell said the flights are "not in direct response to any real or perceived threat, or specific actions taken by any adversary."