Comments on: Foreign Minister OK’s greater regional role for USFK http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/11/02/foreign-minister-oks-greater-regional-role-for-usfk/ Korea... in Blog Format Thu, 4 Dec 2008 19:08:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: luisalegria http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/11/02/foreign-minister-oks-greater-regional-role-for-usfk/#comment-7856 luisalegria Tue, 02 Nov 2004 14:24:12 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=1204#comment-7856 Not China, but Indonesia/Philippines/Malaysia/Thailand. The US does not base any substantial number of ground troops within easy reach of these places, other than South Korea. If the US wants to be able to intervene down there, South Korea is the closest location where a couple of "heavy" divisions worth of equipment is stored. Not even Hawaii has all that stuff, or those troops in a reasonable state of preparedness, or the facilities to organize it all with troops flown in from the states. Not China, but Indonesia/Philippines/Malaysia/Thailand.
The US does not base any substantial number of ground troops within easy reach of these places, other than South Korea. If the US wants to be able to intervene down there, South Korea is the closest location where a couple of “heavy” divisions worth of equipment is stored.

Not even Hawaii has all that stuff, or those troops in a reasonable state of preparedness, or the facilities to organize it all with troops flown in from the states.

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