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U.S. 1/4 overseas forces

entrenched in Okinawa, Japan

Asia-Pacific and the Indian Ocean region to the United States has important strategic value, Therefore, in the region after the number of overseas bases in Europe, accounting for the total number of U.S. bases overseas, 42.7%, a total of seven base group.

these lanes 3 large base line configuration: the first line from Alaska, Northeast Asia, Southwest Pacific and Indian Ocean and other groups composed of four bases, control of the strategic waterway, the Straits and the sea; 2-wire from Guam and Australia, New Zealand, composed of 2 base group is relying on the first base line and an important transit base for air and sea transport, surveillance and reconnaissance is also important to base; third base line formed by the base of the Hawaiian Islands, is supporting operations in Asia Pacific rear, is an outpost of U.S. homeland defense. In these bases, the more significant are: located in Alaska’s Elmendorf Air Force Base (Alaska Air Command station), based in Yokosuka, Japan, Okinawa Naval Base, in Korea, Seoul, Osan Air Base and the base , located on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean naval base in Guam’s Andersen Air Force Base and E Pala naval base.

subunit to base located in northeast Japan, South Korea, the Korean peninsula can respond to the Northwest Pacific Marine and naval battle, constitute “island chain” the most important part. 41 U.S. bases in Korea, including 38 army bases, air bases 2, Naval Base 1. About 140 military bases scattered in various parts of the Japanese archipelago, much of which focused on Okinawa 45 bases this accounts for only 0.6% of Japan’s land on the islands. In this tiny, focused on U.S. forces overseas, 1/4 strength, as well as the number of U.S. forces in Japan to 60%.

at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa in the Far East is the largest U.S. air base, an area of ??20 square kilometers, mainly stationed in the base unit of the U.S. Air Force veteran of the 5th Air Force 18th Air Wing deployment of three F15 fighter squadron, an AWACS squadron and eight KC-135 aerial refueling aircraft, the existing military personnel 9000 people. From Guam’s B-52 bombers in the Kadena air tanker’s help, can fly continuously for 17 hours, firing cruise missiles to Iraq. Kadena Air Base is an important U.S. military bases overseas reconnaissance, intelligence stationed in the Air Force 390 Squadron, 82 reconnaissance squadron, the 18th Wing intelligence unit and 353rd Special Operations Group, the U.S. military access to intelligence of other countries an important base. Kadena Air Base from the U.S. military reconnaissance plane took off, flying in close to the line of China’s territorial waters, the most recent pitch line of China’s territorial waters only 12 km. April 1, 2001 in the South China Sea collided with a Chinese fighter over the EP-3 reconnaissance plane that took off from here.

Review of Guam: the endless occupation

Today, Guam (Guam), has the United States overseas possessions, resorts and U.S. military bases. But in a few years ago, Guam, or a quiet and beautiful island, the Chamorro tribe habitat.

as early as 3,500 years ago, the Chamorro tribe they came across the ocean in the Western Pacific, Guam, lived by fishing, picking coconuts and clay making a living of life.

to 400 years ago, the indigenous Chamorro people who began to be Europe’s navigators discovered. According to legend, kind of Chamorro tribe had saved the dying in the sea a large Portuguese navigator Magellan, but the Chamorro people did not think, after Magellan to go back and do not bring them happiness in the next few hundred years, waiting for them, turns a few countries, occupation and domination.

Spain: virgin fall

first to the Spaniards, in 1565, Spain formally to the Guam territorial claims, of course, until 1668 only formally established in the island colony. Brutal European colonial rulers, not only brought large-scale massacres and ongoing war, there was the deadly smallpox and influenza, together with the Typhoon 1671 and 1693, the indigenous population of the devastating reduced.

during the next 200 years, Guam has been the Spanish fleet in the round-trip between Mexico and the Philippines, engaged in maritime trade and food important transit depot.

to 1898, the Spanish-American War, the treaty signed in Paris, Guam was ceded to the United States. U.S. president is also selected that year, an official of the Navy appointed as Chief Executive of the island. In the U.S. under the management of Guam’s population and economy compared to the Spanish colonial period were to a certain degree of development. To 1927, people living in Guam fundraising in Shanghai, China ordered a plaque to commemorate a special contribution to the U.S. Navy on the island.

in 1941 years ago, the U.S. Navy, Guam, Western Pacific has always been an important fuel depot, and communications stations.

United States and Japan: scramble

entered World War II, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Guam after a successful landing, and in 1941 December 12-year occupation of the island, and the renamed “Omiya Jima”, Guam during World War II has become the only U.S. territory occupied by other countries. In nearly 31 months of rule, which, although a small number of local people are allowed to engage in business and religious activities, but more of a concentration camp-style management and genocide.

1944 年 8 月 10, the U.S. military re-occupation of Guam. Since then, it became an important naval and air bases in the United States, under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Navy, 1950, the U.S. passed a bill, announced that Guam is the U.S. “unincorporated territory”, and give the island self-government to local power, owned by the U.S. Ministry of the Interior jurisdiction. As a military base in the western Pacific, Guam during the Korean and Vietnam wars, had assembled troops, delivering ammunition supplies to support the long-range bombing, has played an important role. After the Cold War, due to major changes in the international strategic situation, the United States ignored the Western Pacific, once the base for several years are not investment dressing base facilities on Guam. To the Bush administration came to power in 2000, Guam was again put on the reconstruction agenda. In September 2001, a new introduction in the United States “Quadrennial Defense Review Report”, has decided to expand the U.S. military base in Guam, as U.S. military base in the central western Pacific to land.

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