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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

"Australia: the New Japan?"

from the diplomat.....

"Australia is busy upgrading its defense relationship with the United States. Under the terms of the deal set to be announced during President Obama’s flying visit to Australia this week, U.S. Marines won’t strictly speaking be “based” in Darwin – that term being politically sensitive to the Australians, much as the term “air base” is anathema in Kyrgyzstan, home of the U.S. Transit Center at Manas. There’ll just be a lot more U.S. Marines in Darwin a lot more often from now on".....READ MORE

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