US enhances nuclear strike capability at Guam: Sankei Shimbun

[BoQ77]

US enhances nuclear strike capability at Guam: Sankei Shimbun

• Staff Reporter
• 2014-08-03
• 12:13 (GMT+8)

Bombers at Anderson Air Force Base, Guam. (Photo/US Air Force)

The United States is enhancing its nuclear strike capability at Guam for a potential confrontation against China in the Far East, the Tokyo-based Sankei Shimbun reported on July 30.

General John M Paxton Jr, the assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, said at a Navy hearing that the US military forces in Japan are improving their capability to launch amphibious operations against the China coast should conflict break out in the East or South China seas. He said the US Marine Corps has a total of four amphibious assault ships and amphibious transport docks under its command at United States Fleet Activities Sasebo.

Paxton said that with the support of those vessels, the Seventh Fleet of the US Navy is capable of launching a strike against crucial targets on the China coast. Equipped with 36 aircraft including AV-8 Harrier fighters and AH-1W assault helicopters, the USS Essex amphibious assault ship was recently sent to the South China Sea for a joint exercise with the Philippine Navy. Sankei Shimbun said this is a move aimed against Chinese ambitions in the disputed region.

In addition to B-2 stealth bombers, the United States Air Force Global Strike Command is preparing to deploy more than 20 advanced B-52H strategic bombers to Anderson Air Force Base on Guam. Though President Barack Obama has declared that the United States does not want war with China, the bombers with nuclear strike capability are there to prevent the People's Liberation Army from taking the disputed Diaoyutai islands (Senkaku to Japan, Diaoyu to China) by force.

Liu Jiangping, a Chinese military expert, told China's Global Times that the Sankei Shimbun report should be seen as a strong warning to Beijing. Liu said it is time for the PLA to strengthen the defense of its military facilities in eastern and southern China. However, he also claimed that Japan is the only nation in the world which would want to see a war between China and the United States and that the leadership in Beijing should not set too much stock by the report.

 

[C130]

not good. I don't think we have the capability to land forces on China mainland or even dare attempt it. We shouldn't be putting ideas in their heads that we would even try too.

 

[BoQ77]

not good. I don't think we have the capability to land forces on China mainland or even dare attempt it. We shouldn't be putting ideas in their heads that we would even try too.

US doesn't know how to make fun of you

 

[xesy]

I don't remember who said it but here it is "The more effective the strategy, the more bullets flying, the less people dyeing." Modern warfare consists of a lot of threatening and embargos before any actual combats. I think the US is just showing its muscles.

 

[Aepsilons]

Well, that's some sobering news.

 

[JSCh]

General John M Paxton Jr, the assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, said at a Navy hearing that the US military forces in Japan are improving their capability to launch amphibious operations against the China coast should conflict break out in the East or South China seas. He said the US Marine Corps has a total of four amphibious assault ships and amphibious transport docks under its command at United States Fleet Activities Sasebo.

This general is a very brave soldier. They should gave him a medal.

the bombers with nuclear strike capability are there to prevent the People's Liberation Army from taking the disputed Diaoyutai islands (Senkaku to Japan, Diaoyu to China) by force.

Ah, maybe not so brave after all.

Now I think he is pathologically suicidal.
Maybe a medal and then send to hospital, perhaps?

 

[BoQ77]

More Marines to Japan; Vietnam, Cambodia next

Feb. 5, 2013 - 08:26PM | Last Updated: Feb. 5, 2013 - 08:26PM |

Marines and sailors hike to Mount Suribachi on Iwo To during a professional military education tour in December 2012. (Pfc. Kasey Peacock / Marine Corps)

By Gidget Fuentes
Staff writer

The Marine Corps' shift to the Pacific will ramp up considerably this year, with more personnel and aircraft rotating to Japan and other destinations throughout the region.

As of late January, there are two infantry battalions rotating through Okinawa for six months at a time, with a third scheduled to start this summer. The Corps also intends to send a contingent of electronic warfare aircraft to its air station in mainland Japan, and a group of explosives experts will undertake a humanitarian mission in Vietnam. Future engagement with Cambodia is on the horizon, too.

The Marine Corps' commandant, Gen. Jim Amos, told reporters at a conference in San Diego last week that the infantry units cycling through Okinawa this year will conduct training in Guam, Australia and, he hopes, the Philippines. The two battalions currently deployed are permanently based in Hawaii and North Carolina. Plans call for another infantry unit, likely from California, to deploy in August or September, Amos said.

"So we'll actually have three rotating," he said. "… That is part of the [Pacific] reorientation … to get these units into the theater."

Additionally, the service will send an unspecified number of EA-6B Prowlers to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, which already hosts rotations of F/A-18 Hornet fighter squadrons. The Prowlers are long-range aircraft equipped with advanced electronic countermeasures capable of disabling enemy air defenses and gathering intelligence.

"We haven't had them there, flying out of Iwakuni, in a long time," Amos said. "They are going to come back. So I'm pretty excited about it."

In July, Marines from Camp Pendleton, Calif., many expert in handling explosives and mines, will head to Vietnam, where thousands of unexploded munitions remain from the Vietnam War. They'll teach locals how to handle and dispose of unexploded munitions, according to a Marine Corps news release.

"We are not training in Vietnam," Amos said, "but I would hope that someday down the road, with relationships we build over the next year or two, that we'll be able to train in Vietnam, perhaps with air forces, and operate along with them and build those relationships."

The Navy's top officer, Adm. Jon Greenert, said during the same conference that the U.S. is seeking new opportunities in Cambodia as well. The commanding general of Marine Forces Pacific, Lt. Gen. Terry Robling, told Marine Corps Times last fall that Vietnam and Cambodia have a strong interest in exchanges or training centered on medical and humanitarian-response missions.

Missions in Malaysia, Indonesia and India also are on the horizon, Robling said at the time.

 

[Kyle Sun]

More Marines to Japan; Vietnam, Cambodia next

Feb. 5, 2013 - 08:26PM | Last Updated: Feb. 5, 2013 - 08:26PM |

Marines and sailors hike to Mount Suribachi on Iwo To during a professional military education tour in December 2012. (Pfc. Kasey Peacock / Marine Corps)

By Gidget Fuentes
Staff writer

The Marine Corps' shift to the Pacific will ramp up considerably this year, with more personnel and aircraft rotating to Japan and other destinations throughout the region.

As of late January, there are two infantry battalions rotating through Okinawa for six months at a time, with a third scheduled to start this summer. The Corps also intends to send a contingent of electronic warfare aircraft to its air station in mainland Japan, and a group of explosives experts will undertake a humanitarian mission in Vietnam. Future engagement with Cambodia is on the horizon, too.

The Marine Corps' commandant, Gen. Jim Amos, told reporters at a conference in San Diego last week that the infantry units cycling through Okinawa this year will conduct training in Guam, Australia and, he hopes, the Philippines. The two battalions currently deployed are permanently based in Hawaii and North Carolina. Plans call for another infantry unit, likely from California, to deploy in August or September, Amos said.

"So we'll actually have three rotating," he said. "… That is part of the [Pacific] reorientation … to get these units into the theater."

Additionally, the service will send an unspecified number of EA-6B Prowlers to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, which already hosts rotations of F/A-18 Hornet fighter squadrons. The Prowlers are long-range aircraft equipped with advanced electronic countermeasures capable of disabling enemy air defenses and gathering intelligence.

"We haven't had them there, flying out of Iwakuni, in a long time," Amos said. "They are going to come back. So I'm pretty excited about it."

In July, Marines from Camp Pendleton, Calif., many expert in handling explosives and mines, will head to Vietnam, where thousands of unexploded munitions remain from the Vietnam War. They'll teach locals how to handle and dispose of unexploded munitions, according to a Marine Corps news release.

"We are not training in Vietnam," Amos said, "but I would hope that someday down the road, with relationships we build over the next year or two, that we'll be able to train in Vietnam, perhaps with air forces, and operate along with them and build those relationships."

The Navy's top officer, Adm. Jon Greenert, said during the same conference that the U.S. is seeking new opportunities in Cambodia as well. The commanding general of Marine Forces Pacific, Lt. Gen. Terry Robling, told Marine Corps Times last fall that Vietnam and Cambodia have a strong interest in exchanges or training centered on medical and humanitarian-response missions.

Missions in Malaysia, Indonesia and India also are on the horizon, Robling said at the time.

Your soldiers look very fashionable!

Tiny US army looking from the back.

 

[xunzi]

We need to bolster and accelerate our defense system. Drill should be made to prepare our people of the worst. Build more underground housing complex. In fact, this can help push Eastern coast people to move Westward and can develop there faster. We need to accelerate stock piling nuke. If we go down, make sure the US and her allies don't live with a smile on their face.

 

[Aepsilons]

 

[terranMarine]

better believe it

 

[Aepsilons]

 

[TaiShang]

We need to bolster and accelerate our defense system. Drill should be made to prepare our people of the worst. Build more underground housing complex. In fact, this can help push Eastern coast people to move Westward and can develop there faster. We need to accelerate stock piling nuke. If we go down, make sure the US and her allies don't live with a smile on their face.

I agree. Collective action and civil defence is the most important to reduce civilian casualties. I also agree that China should get the message into the heads of Washington's big brass that it has enough capability to destroy them en masse should they dare to launch a fatal assault on China. This will ensure peace because the US will never attack if they think their own life is at stake. They are more comfortable carpet bombing defenseless nations.

 

[Aepsilons]

I agree. Collective action and civil defence is the most important to reduce civilian casualties. I also agree that China should get the message into the heads of Washington's big brass that it has enough capability to destroy them en masse should they dare to launch a fatal assault on China. This will ensure peace because the US will never attack if they think their own life is at stake. They are more comfortable carpet bombing defenseless nations.

Why would you think that the United States would initiate a nuclear first strike ?

You understand that this would be political suicide for any presidency, right?

 

[terranMarine]

hopefully Chinese Satan is being developed at the moment