Growing up in life I have realized that school may not be the thing for me. I have always struggled to be a consistent student and was honestly surprised when I made it to college. Since my freshman year I have always thought that the Military might be the path for me. One thing that I know about myself is that I need structure to succeed, where has more structure than our armed forces? One thing I knew about myself is that if I joined the Military I wouldn’t want to be just another soldier on the ground. The idea of working in an embassy or being stationed in another country has always intrigued me, So I started researching. With the Idea of working overseas implanted in my brain I started my research on the United States in foreign
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Glaser talks about the importance of bases throughout the world and if they are truly necessary. According to a RAND representative “lighter ground forces can deploy by air from the United States almost as quickly as they can from within a region.”Glaser asks if we can handle our deployments of light military support as well as our large support from the US are bases in foreign countries actually necessary? Glaser points out that “An armored brigade combat team can get from Germany to Kuwait in approximately 18 days, only about four days quicker than if it deployed from the east coast of the United States.” While this article does seem one sided on the aspect of removing overseas bases it brings good points to why we could eliminate them. According to the basing expert Robert Harkavy “the development of longer range aircraft and ships, plus the development of techniques for aerial refueling of planes and at-sea refueling of ships has had the effect of greatly decreasing the number of basing points required by major powers to maintain global access networks.” But only deploying for the US would have its weaknesses as well. Robert Harkavy always states that “ The transit time to the Taiwan Strait, for example, for a carrier strike group deployed from Yokosuka, Japan would take 3 to 5 days, whereas deployment from the West Coast would take up to 16 days.” Also deploying troops from …show more content…
With the fear of a North Korean invasion growing bigger by the day South Korea is relying on the United States now more than ever. Donald trump was quoted saying "We defend Japan. We defend Germany. We defend South Korea. We defend Saudi Arabia. We defend countries. They do not pay us what they should be paying us because we are providing a tremendous service and we 're losing a fortune," Robert Kelly then points out that “both South Korea and Japan have spent Billions of dollars supporting the United States bases within the borders of their countries” and that the United States is not forced to stay there and actually enjoy being in these counties for “Security reasons”. Robert Kelly points out that "Trump has said some tough things about America 's alliance relationships around the world." While Kelly fears what Trump might do, he does say that he is not quite sure of what Trump is saying, "I 'll be honest and say I don 't think he really knows himself," "I don 't think he really knows a great deal or cares a great deal about foreign affairs." Trump spoke with the Japanese Prime minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-hye saying that "We are with you all the
Glaser talks about the importance of bases throughout the world and if they are truly necessary. According to a RAND representative “lighter ground forces can deploy by air from the United States almost as quickly as they can from within a region.”Glaser asks if we can handle our deployments of light military support as well as our large support from the US are bases in foreign countries actually necessary? Glaser points out that “An armored brigade combat team can get from Germany to Kuwait in approximately 18 days, only about four days quicker than if it deployed from the east coast of the United States.” While this article does seem one sided on the aspect of removing overseas bases it brings good points to why we could eliminate them. According to the basing expert Robert Harkavy “the development of longer range aircraft and ships, plus the development of techniques for aerial refueling of planes and at-sea refueling of ships has had the effect of greatly decreasing the number of basing points required by major powers to maintain global access networks.” But only deploying for the US would have its weaknesses as well. Robert Harkavy always states that “ The transit time to the Taiwan Strait, for example, for a carrier strike group deployed from Yokosuka, Japan would take 3 to 5 days, whereas deployment from the West Coast would take up to 16 days.” Also deploying troops from …show more content…
With the fear of a North Korean invasion growing bigger by the day South Korea is relying on the United States now more than ever. Donald trump was quoted saying "We defend Japan. We defend Germany. We defend South Korea. We defend Saudi Arabia. We defend countries. They do not pay us what they should be paying us because we are providing a tremendous service and we 're losing a fortune," Robert Kelly then points out that “both South Korea and Japan have spent Billions of dollars supporting the United States bases within the borders of their countries” and that the United States is not forced to stay there and actually enjoy being in these counties for “Security reasons”. Robert Kelly points out that "Trump has said some tough things about America 's alliance relationships around the world." While Kelly fears what Trump might do, he does say that he is not quite sure of what Trump is saying, "I 'll be honest and say I don 't think he really knows himself," "I don 't think he really knows a great deal or cares a great deal about foreign affairs." Trump spoke with the Japanese Prime minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-hye saying that "We are with you all the