Don't know what are where to cut down but Steve_NO said those installations serve as tripwires. So was wanting to know just who is out there to require that many locations. Mayby its like everything else...once ya got em its hard to do away with any of them.
Agree with a big buildup of the Navy. The more ships and boats the better. Ya go where and when the need arises.
But like I asked, who is out there that requires all these installations around the world...on a day in day out bases?
A great many of these "trip wires" have a life of their own, they are in effect pork, no freakn Kobe beef. Trip wires are relatively cheap. Maintaining 35,000 troops in S Korea for over 50 years indefinitely is not.
I posted a link to an inside video essay of N Korea on my earlier post. These poor people live in a 1950's bubble where the threat of war is constantly presented by the state run media, filtered through one man. There are many in the U.S. that live in this same bubble. In that some profit from their beliefs does not justify them.
