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Buyant-Uhaa

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Kelowna

Hegang

Jilin

Khujand

Liaoyuan

Kansk

Usolye Sibirskoye

Komsomolsk na Amure

Prince Albert

North Battleford

Vilyuysk

Chernyshevskiy

Tayshet

Neryungri

Svobodnyy

Nakhodka

Palatka

Pevek

Namangan

Mirput Khas

Vadodara

Erenhot

Taian

Panzhihua

Foshan

Qitaihe

Palmer

Courtenay

Gambell

Long Beach

Ely

Tacoma

Medford

Douglas

Teli

Govorovo

Menkere

TerbyasYerema

Bagdarin

Novyy Uoyin

Sangar

Kavache

Chagdaka

Khakhar

Chumikan

Ayan

El'dikan

Zyryanka

Srednekolymsk

Cherskiy

Omolon

ManilyEvensk

De Kastri

Zeya

Chaman

Rawalpindi

Kakinada

Wuhai

Bontang

TuguegaraoVigan

Bayankhongor

DarhanErdenetBulgan

Baruun Urt

Nagqu

Nyingchi

Townsville

Cairns

KarrathaPort Hedland

Broome

Wyndham

Mount Isa

Innisfail

Bowen

Derby

Kununurra

Katherine

Tennant Creek

Cloncurry

Karumba

Weipa

Hughenden

Georgetown

Darwin

Labasa

Camooweal

Halls Creek

4,700

2,500

PALAU

VANUATU

NAURU

QATAR

SRI LANKA VIETNAM

TAIWAN

BAHRAIN

SAMOA

FIJI ISLANDS

SOLOMONISLANDS

UNITED STATES

OMAN

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

IRANUZBEKISTAN

KYRGYZSTANTAJIKISTAN

AFGHANISTAN

PAKISTAN

INDIA NEPAL

BANGLADESH

MYANMAR

BHUTAN

THAILAND

CAMBODIA

LAOS

MALAYSIABRUNEI

PHILIPPINES

PAPUANEW GUINEA

I N D O N E S I A

MONGOLIA

CHINA

RUSSIA

NORTH KOREA

JAPAN

UNITED STATES

AndamanIslands(INDIA)

SAUDIARABIA

SOUTH KOREA

EAST TIMOR

Kotte

Putrajaya

Quezon City

Baguio City

Kyoto

Pasay City

19,700 2,500

JAPAN

24,200

Okinawa(JAPAN)

PHILIPPINES

300

N. MARIANAS100

GUAM1,600

AMERICANSAMOA:400

Hawaii27,400 6,100

Alaska

14,800

S. KOREA

37,000

45,000

Army: Joint BaseLewis-McChord,Washington state

Marines:Camp Pendleton,California

SOUTH KOREA19,700

JAPAN2,500

JAPAN24,200

JAPAN15,000

GUAM4,700

HAWAII8,800

AUSTRALIA2,500

PHILIPPINES2,500

N. MARIANAS100

GUAM1,600

AMER.SAMOA

400

HAWAII27,400

HAWAII6,100

WASHINGTON45,000

WASHINGTON45,000

ALASKA14,800

WASHINGTON37,000

W. CONUS2,000

Sources: U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps and the Brookings Institution THE WASHINGTON POST

CHINA

MONG.

N. KOREAINDIA

AFGH.

IRAN

PAKISTAN

TAIWAN

BURMA

THAI.

VIETNAM

SINGAPORE

CAMB.

LAOS

RUSSIACANADA

M A L A Y S I A

AUSTRALIA

I N D O N E S I A

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ARMY: The U.S. Army’s largest presence in the Paci�c Rim is in South Korea, serving mainly as a deterrent to o�en-sives from North Korea’s million-man army.

MARINES: The largest concentration of Marines is in Japan, predominantly based on the island of Okinawa.

The military in�uence of the U.S. territory of Guam could increase under the new realignment. There are currently 12,000 U.S. service members on two bases. The Marines would like to shift 4,700 troops from Okinawa here, as well as about 2,500 troops to northern Australia.

With the war in Afghanistan winding down, the Obama administration has deemed Asia to be the nation’s next national security priority. Since the end of the Vietnam War, the Marine Corps has deployed more forces in East Asia than the Army, except for the Korean Peninsula. Worried that the Pentagon’s focus on air and sea power to address threats in the region will cut its share ofthe defense budget, the Army is commencing an ambitious campaign to transform itself and assert its relevance in the Paci�c.

A comparison of U.S. Army and Marine strength in the Paci�c Rim

This area of Asia is home to many of the world’s fastest- growing populations and economies. It includes �ve of the world’s 10 largest armies, in China, India, North Korea, South Korea and Vietnam. The region is of particular importance to the U.S. military because of China’s growing in�uence, instabil-ity on the Korean Peninsula, long-simmering territorial disputes and frequent natural disasters.

The Army’s plan in reentering the Paci�c arena is to send 750 troops on extended periods to conduct training and outreach in multiple countries. The Marines counter that they already have a 1,000-strong expeditionary unit conducting this type of service in the Paci�c, most recently provid-ing humanitarian assistance to the Philippines.

CURRENT TROOP LEVELS

U.S. WESTCOAST STRATEGYFLASH POINTS

Territorialdispute

Territorialdispute

Strategicshipping channel

IslamistExtremism

Rogue regimeNuclear threat

Territorial dispute

Territorialdispute

As of November, there are about 45,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan