CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY (Grant Newsham) - United States-Japan alliance: reducing burdens or winning wars?
Originally published by Japan Forward
Military experts are calling for a DPRI update to strengthen United States-Japan defenses amid a deteriorating regional security landscape. A United States Marine officer did what Marine officers are supposed to do the other day. He opened a can of worms. Lt Colonel Caleb Eames, a fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC, and his colleague wrote an article proposing a halt to the relocation of 5,000 Marines from Okinawa to Guam. The move was agreed to in 2006 during the US-Japan Defense Policy Review Initiative (DPRI). It calls for moving 9,000 Marines from Okinawa to Guam, Hawaii, and the US mainland, while 10,000 Marines would remain on Okinawa. There’s an instinctive logic to not moving Marines to Guam. For one thing,…Open