America’s New Base in Asia
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 3rd, 2009 5:40 am by HL
America’s New Base in Asia
PYONGTAEK, South Korea-The cold wind sweeps down from the Siberian steppes across Manchuria and onto the Korean peninsula, thence to brush over a wide expanse of rice paddies on which is being built a huge American military base. From here, expeditions could be launched to any troubled place in Asia. The conversion of Camp Humphreys, long a small isolated post, into the US Army Garrison Humphreys over the next eight years will turn it, along with the nearby US air base at Osan, into a hub in the consolidation of US forces in South Korea into 47 posts from the present 104 sites. Of the 28,500 US troops remaining in Korea after recent reductions, 18,000 will be here and another 5600 in Osan.
