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| seWer Rat | Aug 12 2012, 03:21 PM Post #1 |
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Amir Ali | August 12, 2012 http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/top-news/2012/08/12/wary-us-conquers-asia-pacific-waters/ With America intensifying its ‘conquest’ of Asia-Pacific waters, Beijing announced it will be more vigilant but will not lash back at the United States (US) for sending most of its warships in the region. Currently, the US fleet is almost evenly split between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The US plans to have most of its war armada in the Asia-Pacific region (more than 60% ) by 2020. It has already started its moves but it will not be alone in this long term exercise termed ‘the encircling’ of China by some Chinese military elements. “The second sentence (of my response) is that we should not treat this indifferently,” Ren had said. The Chinese apparent reluctance to deal with the US ‘invasion’ of the seas is probably due to major developments in the curtailing of the ‘economic’ importance of the Asia-Pacific seas. Russia and China are busy rebuilding the Russian Far East region which is washed by the Pacific Ocean waters from the Russia-Chinese border, by-passing Kamchatka and the Anadyr region in Russia. However, Ren added: “We must see that we’re facing extremely complex and one could sometimes even say quite serious developments, and we must raise our awareness of peril, and prepare to cope with all kinds of complex and serious circumstances.” China’s fast-modernising navy has stirred worries among neighbours, including in southeast Asia, where several countries are in dispute with Beijing over rival territorial claims in the South China Sea, Reuters stated. |
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| Ayoshi | Sep 20 2012, 11:02 PM Post #2 |
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US tilt to Asia not aimed against China: Panetta ph.news.yahoo.com US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta sought to reassure Beijing on Wednesday over Washington's strategic tilt to the Pacific, telling a military audience it was not an attempt to curb Chinese power. President Barack Obama, concerned about China's growing military and economic might, has called for a shift in focus to the Asia-Pacific region, with the US Navy planning to station most of its ships in the area. But China has questioned whether the American military's "pivot" to Asia is really about countering Beijing. "Our rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region is not an attempt to contain China. It is an attempt to engage China and expand its role in the Pacific," Panetta said in the Chinese capital. "It's about creating a new model in the relationship of our two Pacific powers," he told cadets at an armoured force engineering academy. As the world's two largest economies, China and the US must forge stronger ties between their armies to avoid potential crises, Panetta said. "Our goal is to make sure that no dispute or misunderstanding escalates into unwanted tensions or a conflict," Panetta said. Full Article |
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| Mckoyzzz | Feb 28 2013, 05:36 PM Post #3 |
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USS Freedom to Conduct Maiden Deployment to the Asia-Pacific From U.S. Pacific Fleet Public Affairs Posted February 27, 2013 PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - The U.S. Pacific Fleet announced today that the Navy's first littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) will depart her homeport of San Diego on March 1 and deploy to the Asia-Pacific region. ![]() Making good on a pledge made initially by former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates at the 2011 Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Freedom will deploy to Southeast Asia and Singapore for approximately eight months. Marking the first of many planned rotational deployments to the Western Pacific for the new LCS platform, Freedom will conduct maritime security operations with regional partners and allies. "Freedom's maiden deployment is another clear signal of the Navy's enduring commitment to maintain security and stability in the vital Asia-Pacific region," said Adm. Cecil Haney, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. "Rotationally deploying our new littoral combat ships improves our warfighting capability and directly supports the Navy's rebalance strategy to the Asia-Pacific. "Even in the face of potential budget cuts, there should be no doubt that the U.S. Pacific Fleet remains on watch and that we will continue to deploy our most capable units forward to operate with our allies and partners." After making initial port visits in Hawaii and Guam, Freedom is expected to participate in the International Maritime Defence Exhibition and Conference (IMDEX) in Singapore and in select phases of the Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) exercise series in Southeast Asia. CPF.NAVY.MIL |
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| Taz_1 | Feb 28 2013, 07:46 PM Post #4 |
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FYI: What really scares China. February 28, 2013: In the last twelve years 6,640 U.S. troops died and 50,450 were wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. These two wars were, together, much less costly than the three year Korean War (36,516 dead) and the eight year Vietnam War (58,289). Moreover the war in Afghanistan has been notable for how low the casualty rate has been, especially for troops killed in combat compared. This can be seen by comparing the losses per division in all these wars. A standard measure of combat losses is the number of troops in a combat division (12-20,000 troops) who are killed each day the division is in combat. Between late 2001 and 2008, there were .12 American combat deaths per division day in Afghanistan. In 2009-11 this nearly doubled then fell again, because of a surge in NATO combat operations. In Iraq, the losses were .44 deaths per division per day (through 2008, after which it dropped to less than .1). During the Vietnam war, the average division lost 3.2 troops a day, which was similar to the losses suffered in Korea (1950-53). By comparison, during World War II the daily losses per American averaged (over 400-500 combat days) about twenty soldiers per day per division. That’s more than 50 times what divisions in Iraq and Afghanistan lost. On the Russian front during World War II, German and Russian divisions lost much more than their American counterparts did in Europe or the Pacific, and often over a hundred dead a day for weeks on end. For short campaigns, which Iraq and Afghanistan are not, the losses were similar. That's why the concept of "days in combat" is used to measure casualties over long duration. During World War II, and before and since, divisions would often be out of the combat zone for days, or weeks, before going back into action. Thus the spectacular six week German conquest of France in 1940 saw their combat divisions taking 30 dead (on average) per day. But during another spectacular military victory, the 1967 Six Day War, Israeli dead were 22 per division per day, and that actually went down to 18 a day during the less spectacular 1973 war. By contrast, the three week invasion of Iraq in 2003 saw U.S. troops suffering 1.6 dead per day per division. During the 2006 Israeli war in Lebanon, Israel lost 8 soldiers per division per day. Even the Israelis were impressed at how the Americans were able to win quickly with record low casualties. With the dramatic drop in casualties, came another big shift. In World War II, one in three casualties was killed. In Iraq and Afghanistan, only 12 percent of the casualties were fatal. This does not change the dramatic difference between combat losses then and now. In World War II, U.S. divisions suffered about 60 dead and wounded per combat day, while in Afghanistan there has been 1-2 (depending on the year) per combat day, and in Iraq, 3.5 (through 2008, much less after that). So by any measure, U.S. troops have learned how to avoid getting hit. U.S. commanders see the reasons as better equipment, tactics, weapons, leadership and training than in the past. With an all-volunteer force, the troops are smarter, and more physically fit and eager as well. Many of the life-saving innovations U.S. troops have come up with in the past seven years have not gotten much publicity. Good news doesn't sell, but in this case, it has definitely saved lives. Then there's force protection. After 1945 the 300,000 World War II combat dead reinforced Americans traditional aversion to warfare. This, despite the fact that Europeans had suffered even more in the World Wars (Russia had lost 10 million troops in World War II combat, and another 20 million soldiers and civilians to non-combat losses, while this only caused an additional 100,000 U.S. deaths.) When Korea came along, the trend to take extraordinary measures to limit U.S. losses began in earnest. Some pundits point out that this force protection mania limits the effectiveness of American troops. Some soldiers and marines agree, but most are quite content to see their chances of surviving combat increased. Keeping fatal casualties down to less than one per division per day is unique, but it should not be seen as a permanent fixture. Facing a more powerful and resourceful enemy will send the rate right back up. The media doesn't like to report it, but the troops will tell you that their Iraqi and Afghan foes are often incredibly brilliant, and do dumb things that U.S. troops usually avoid. By comparison, fighting North Korea would be much more difficult. The terrain of Korea (lots of steep hills and narrow valleys) makes it hard to use mobile warfare. The North Koreans have spent half a century digging fortifications into the sides of those hills. But morale in the North Korean army is fragile, as is the command and control systems used to run the army. North Korea can be beaten, but not while having only one or two soldiers killed per division per day. It might be something closer to ten times that, depending on a lot of things you can't quite put your hands on. Like surprise, unexpected tactics and good information about what shape the North Koreans are in. But that won't be the loss rate during a long (several hundred days) war. Without external support from Russia or China, North Korea has to fight a short war. The important thing to remember is that while lower casualties for the better prepared force is a historical fact, experiencing historically low losses every time is not. For that reason, professional military planners in many nations are carefully studying the U.S. experience in Iraq and Afghanistan. But so are U.S. planners, who fear that American troops, now so well prepared to fight irregulars, might find themselves unprepared to fight a more conventional war, and take higher casualties as a result. That is true, to a certain extent. But the major advantage American troops have gained is combat experience. They know how to operate effectively under fire. If U.S. troops are given several months to practice the specific tactics required for fighting a conventional war, they will be a formidable, combat experienced, force. |
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| Santi Kampilan | Mar 1 2013, 03:26 AM Post #5 |
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Lockheed Martin - USS Freedom deployment Video - in Camo paint Edited by Santi Kampilan, Mar 1 2013, 03:43 AM.
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| Taz_1 | Mar 2 2013, 10:50 AM Post #6 |
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FYI : Invading Malaysia And Chasing Off China Next Article → PEACEKEEPING: The UN Goes Hard Core March 1, 2013: Final peace talks with MILF are going well and both sides expect to finish all the details by next month. This would establish a new Moslem entity (Bangasamoro) in the south that would have more autonomy but would make the Moslems down there responsible for maintaining the peace. This is no small matter because, more than elsewhere in the Philippines, the Moslem south has long had many more clan militias that believed it was their right to engage in private wars. Not all the clans share the MILF’s official attitudes about who shall have the right to make war in Bangasamoro. The peace deal could still come apart over these details, especially the exact extent of the power the Bangasamoro government would have. In Sabah (a Malaysian province on the island of Borneo, which is southwest of the Philippines across the Sulu Sea) nearly two hundred armed Filipinos are under fire from Malaysian troops who have arrived to disarm and arrest them. There have been some casualties. The Filipinos are members of a clan descended from a line of Moslem rulers of a Moslem sultanate that disappeared in the 19th century as the U.S., Holland, Spain, and Britain established control over the region. The Filipino government asked the intruders to withdraw but were ignored. Technically, the Philippines still claims Sabah, because that is a popular stance among Moslem voters in the Philippines. But as a practical matter these claims are moribund and considered a bit of history and little more. Abu Sayyaf has apparently gone total gangster and left its Islamic terrorism roots moribund. Members mention Islamic radicalism less and less and work at being kidnappers and thieves more and more. But they are still down there (especially Sulu and Basilan) and the government still wants them all rounded up. That will be difficult because criminal gangs down there have staying power via family and economic connections with locals. February 25, 2013: The government formally protested Chinese fishery patrols off the Filipino coast. Last year China declared most of the South China Sea as part of China and set up administrative facilities on one of the disputed small islands (that cannot otherwise support a population). China recently announced that it will spend $1.6 billion on building economic or security facilities on these disputed bits of land. China is also backing up its claims by stationing larger warships (frigates and destroyers, with helicopters on board) in the disputed waters. Chinese tactics involve moving in quietly (with warships or facilities built on reefs or uninhabited rocks) and then leaving nearby claimants the option of attacking (and being beaten by more powerful Chinese forced to “defend themselves”) or just backing off. The Philippines is seeking help from the United States if it comes to removing Chinese from waters that are generally recognized as Filipino. February 21, 2013: The navy has sent more patrol craft to the southwestern provinces (the islands of Sulu, Tawi-Tawi, and Basilan) to prevent any more local armed men from going to nearby Sabah (a Malaysian province on Borneo Island). February 9, 2013: Over a hundred armed Filipino Moslems landed in a remote village in the Malaysian province of Sabah and claimed the province as theirs. |
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| Vermonter | Mar 4 2013, 12:38 AM Post #7 |
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Fighting in Sabah rages 5 more Malaysians, 2 Filipinos killed By Leila B. Salaverria Philippine Daily Inquirer 12:00 am | Monday, March 4th, 2013 1 26 6 Sultan of Sulu Jamalul Kiram III and his daughter, Princess Jacel Kiram, blame the fresh violence in Sabah on the government’s refusal to talk to them about their claim to the Malaysian territory. RICHARD REYES Supporters of the sultan of Sulu struck back on Saturday night, killing five Malaysian policemen and seizing four local government officials in an attack that indicated an escalation of violence to other parts of Sabah after the killing of 12 of the sultan’s followers in a clash with Malaysian security forces in Lahad Datu on Friday. Abraham Idjirani, spokesman for the sultanate of Sulu, said an Islamic religious leader and his four sons were killed in the fighting in the seaside village of Simunul in Semporna town, 300 kilometers from Tanduao village in Lahad Datu, the site of a 3-week-old standoff between Malaysian security forces and a group of followers of Sultan Jamalul Kiram III. Idjirani said two “highest” military officials, one police officer, and one “highest civilian” officer were being held by Jamalul’s supporters affiliated with Alianapia Kiram, a brother of the sultan. Reports coming from Malaysia said two supporters of the Sulu sultan were killed in the shootout with policemen. Idjirani said the group of sultanate followers led by Agbimuddin Kiram, another brother of Jamalul, had “occupied and controlled” Semporna, which is populated by Filipinos from Sulu, Tawi-Tawi, Basilan and the Zamboanga peninsula. Alim Hashim Mudjahab, chairman of the Islamic Council Committee of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), told the Inquirer in Zamboanga City that supporters of the sultan attacked a police station in Semporna on Saturday night. “They freed more than a hundred Filipino Muslims who were arrested on Friday and they even captured the Malaysian police chief and his colleagues,” Mudjahab said. “We are worried because it seems that these reports are not important to the Philippine government,” he said. In Tawau, Mudjahab said, followers of the sultan attacked a convoy of Malaysian military trucks, “hurling dynamite commonly used for fishing.” “As we are talking now (11 a.m. Sunday), tension is spreading as far as Sandakan and there are reports that some Tausug residing in Kota Kinabalu are ready to fight the Malaysian authorities,” he said. Mudjahab said he received the information from “MNLF supporters in those areas.” But Lt. Gen. Rey Ardo, chief of the military’s Western Mindanao Command, said he had not received information about an escalation of Friday’s violence in Lahad Datu to other parts of Sabah. Police raid Idjirani said the violence spread to Semporna when Malaysian policemen pretending to round up undocumented Filipinos stormed Simunul village in search of relatives of the sultan. He said the policemen shot one Imam Maas and his four sons and wounded one Imam Jul when they learned that they were taking care of the sultan’s relatives in the area, Alianapia and Amir Bahar. The killings angered the villagers, who attacked the authorities and seized four Malaysian officials. Idjirani said the sultanate of Sulu blamed the fresh violence on the Malaysian government, which, like the Philippine government, refused to deal with the Kirams on their claim to Sabah. “This escalation (of the violence) is the result of the hardline policy of the Federation of Malaysia of not [sitting down to] discuss the standoff in Lahad Datu [for] a peaceful resolution of this issue, so that, like Malacañang, the sultanate of Sulu is washing its hands [of] this conflict now escalating in Sabah,” Idjirani told a news conference at the sultan’s home in Taguig City. He said Jamalul, who learned that 10 of his followers were captured during the clash in Tanduao only on Saturday morning, asked his supporters in Semporna to take care and feed the Malaysian officials they had seized. Jamalul did not call for the release of the Malaysian officials, as they could be used as witnesses to the “atrocities” committed by the Malaysian government, Idjirani said. He said the sultan’s supporters in Semporna could not be blamed for their action because it was the Malaysian police who raided the town. “These are unorganized efforts of the people, who can no longer stand the actions that the Malaysian government has been taking against them since 1982,” Idjirani said. Jamalul’s daughter, Princess Jacel Kiram, said the people of Semporna would decide whether the four Malaysian officials should be released. She said the people were not violent. If they were, they would have killed the four officials, she said. Idjirani said people from Basilan, Sulu, Tawi-Tawi and the Zamboanga peninsula were departing for Sabah to help Agbimuddin’s group. He said he did not know for sure whether those people, who were going to Sabah without consulting the sultan, were armed. It is possible, however, that they are armed, he said. Malaysian story Jacel said her father was calling on his supporters to stay calm. The sultan, she said, was “doing everything he could” to solve the Sabah crisis peacefully. Reports coming from Malaysia indicated that it was the sultan’s supporters who started the violence in Semporna. Malaysian Inspector General of Police Ismail Omar said five policemen were killed when they were ambushed at a village on stilts in Semporna late Saturday. Ismail said a police team had entered Simunul village in Semporna in a hunt for a group of gunmen when they were fired upon. He said two of the gunmen were killed in the shootout with the police team. Police have encircled the village to track down the remaining gunmen, Ismail said. He said the security forces were on the hunt for 10 men, three of whom were armed and seen wearing military fatigues at two villages in the east-coast district of Kunak at about 10 p.m. on Saturday. Ismail said police were trying to establish whether the Semporan and Kunak incidents were related to the Tanduao standoff that turned violent on Friday. He said police arrested three men who were trying to slip through a security cordon around Tanduao late Saturday. The three, who were armed with knives, were detained for questioning, Ismail said. More security forces arrived in Semporna on Sunday, leading to evacuations of residents for fear of more fighting. Filipinos were among the people leaving the town, reports coming from Malaysia said. Radio reports from Sabah said a Filipino man armed with an M-16 rifle was beaten to death by residents of a village near Semporna Sunday morning. The reports quoted villagers as saying the man was a follower of the sultan of Sulu. The Semporna police chief, Mohamad Firdaus Francis Abdullah, had no comment about the incident. Surprised Acting Gov. Mujiv Hataman of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) said he was surprised when told about reports of fighting in Sabah. “What? Where did those [reports] [come] from?” Hataman said when contacted for comment by the Inquirer. Al Tillah, policy adviser to the sultanate of Sulu, said President Aquino had created a team to handle the Sabah crisis. He said the team was composed of Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Emmanuel Bautista, Ardo and Hataman. “The Sabah issue is not a military issue,” Tillah said. “It’s [a] political issue that requires diplomatic action.”—With reports from Julie S. Alipala and Alan A. Nawal, Inquirer Mindanao; and The Star/Asia News Network http://globalnation.inquirer.net/66539/fighting-in-sabah-rages Get some bitches!!! This is for causing trouble in the 80s and 90s! |
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| Vermonter | Mar 4 2013, 02:16 AM Post #8 |
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| Vermonter | Mar 6 2013, 12:10 PM Post #9 |
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US Navy prepares Poseidon for inaugural deployment Record Infohide Publication:Jane's Navy International Author:Gareth Jennings, London Section:SIGNALS Country: United States Last posted:2013-02-28 Images:2 images The US Navy (USN) is preparing its crews for the inaugural operational deployment of its Boeing P-8A Poseidon multimission maritime patrol aircraft towards the end of the year, a senior service official announced on 27 February. 1398106The P-8A seen over Mount Rainier in Washington state. The US Navy is to buy 117 of these aircraft to replace the ageing P-3C Orion. (Boeing) Having already participated in a number of littoral warfare and anti-submarine exercises, the P-8A force is building up its combat readiness ahead of a planned deployment to the Western Pacific in December, said Rear Admiral Sean Buck, Commander, Patrol and Reconnaissance Group. This deployment, possibly to the Philippines or Thailand, will be conducted by six aircraft from the navy's first fleet unit, Patrol Squadron (VP)-16 'War Eagles'. Based at Naval Air Station (NAS) Jacksonville in Florida, VP-16 began its transition from the incumbent Lockheed Martin P-3C Orion to the P-8A in mid-2012 and was declared ready to operate P-8As from its home station in January. With two Poseidons already on the flightline, a further four will be handed over to the squadron ahead of its deployment. As noted by Adm Buck, the second fleet squadron, VP-5, has commenced P-8A transition at NAS Jacksonville, and the third squadron, VP-45, will commence transition later in 2013 after returning from a P-3C deployment to the Western Pacific. These and other USN units will be trained by instructors from the Fleet Replacement Squadron, VP-30. To date, the USN has received its first six low-rate initial-production (LRIP) aircraft and should begin receiving seven additional LRIP 2 aircraft over the coming 12 months. The US Department of Defense (DoD) has so far contracted Boeing to build 24 P-8As under three LRIP contracts awarded since 2011. 1441620An infographic showing how the P-8 Poseidon compares with the P-3C Orion platform it was designed to replace. (IHS) As part of the build-up of its capability, the navy has already deployed a small number of P-8As on exercise to Alaska, Australia, Guam, Hawaii, Japan, and Scotland, where they have been put through a number of operational scenarios. Based on the Boeing 737 airliner, the P-8A is designed to replace the P-3, which has been in service since the 1960s. With the P-3C fleet currently averaging some 17,000 flight hours (one aircraft has more than 26,000 hours on the clock), only 85 of the 132 P-3s still in the inventory are operational. The USN has a programme of record of 117 P-8A aircraft, with initial operating capability (IOC) slated for July 2013. |
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| raider1011 | Mar 14 2013, 02:19 PM Post #10 |
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Obama To Raise Sea Dispute At Asia Summits Published: March 14, 2013 WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama pledged Tuesday to bring up maritime disputes boiling between China and its neighbors at the US-ASEAN and East Asia summits in Brunei in October. Brunei has already said that it will pursue a binding code of conduct among competing claimants in the South China Sea during its ASEAN chairmanship this year. China insists disputes are a bilateral matter between individual nations. “We will be discussing maritime issues,” Obama said after meeting Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah in the Oval Office, referring to the two summits, which he is expected to attend. “Obviously, there have been a lot of tensions in the region around maritime issues and His Majesty has shown great leadership in order to bring the countries together to make sure that everybody’s abiding by basic precepts of rule of law and international standards.” Manila Bulletin |
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