{"id":250994,"date":"2022-03-17T08:03:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T08:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=250994"},"modified":"2022-03-18T07:53:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T07:53:21","slug":"united-states-will-deploy-thousands-of-troops-in-the-northern-territory-after-australia-admitted-war-with-china-is-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=250994","title":{"rendered":"United States will deploy THOUSANDS of troops in the Northern Territory after Australia admitted war with China IS possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>US Army servicemen will be deployed in the Northern Territory for the first time<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>They will join a rotational force of more than 200 US Marines by September\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Comes after Australia signed historic AUKUS pact with America and Britain\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Beijing has fumed at the new alliance, with state media warning of nukes\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Levi Parsons \u2013 Daily Mail March 16, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_177448\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/US-Marines-with-Amphibious-Assault-Vehicle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-177448\" class=\"wp-image-177448\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/US-Marines-with-Amphibious-Assault-Vehicle-1024x583.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-177448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Marines with Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAV) take a part in a landing operation during a military Exercise Baltops 2018. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thousands of American soldiers trained to use surface-to-air missile systems, High Mobility Artillery Rockets and unmanned aircraft are bound for Australia as tensions grow with China.<\/p>\n<p>The rotational US Marine force of about 2200 servicemen and women will be based in the Northern Territory during the upcoming dry season from September.<\/p>\n<p>It is the 11th deployment to the Top End and for the first time will include 250 US Army personnel, the Australian Defence Force announced.<\/p>\n<p>The contingent is\u00a0part of an ongoing US initiative in the Indo-Pacific region to prepare for a possible Chinese invasion of Taiwan in coming years.<\/p>\n<p>Defence Minister Peter Dutton in September warned conflict with China &#8216;shouldn&#8217;t be discounted&#8217; and on Wednesday told the US Studies Centre Beijing may look to annex Taiwan while the world is preoccupied with Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The marine deployment will complement that Enhanced Air Co-operation program between the Royal Australian Air Force and United States Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>About 1000 Marines have already landed in Darwin.<\/p>\n<p>They will train with the ADF to ensure they are able to respond to crises in the region.<\/p>\n<p>That could include humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, evacuation missions, and reinforcing US embassies or military operations.<\/p>\n<p>Darwin&#8217;s location just south of more than a dozen Asian countries and some of the world&#8217;s busiest shipping lanes makes it a strategic stepping-off point.<\/p>\n<p>The training will include live-fire military exercises to improve cohesion between Australian and US forces and those of other regional allies.<\/p>\n<p>Commander of the ADF&#8217;s northern force Colonel Marcus Constable said the US alliance was Australia&#8217;s most important defence relationship and central to the nation&#8217;s security plan<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10617533\/United-States-deploy-THOUSANDS-troops.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of U.S. Marines will deploy to northern Australia in anticipation of rising tensions with China<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250994"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251024,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250994\/revisions\/251024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}