LAUNCHING SITE ENEMY TERRITORY cop apid intervention into "flashpoint' evelopments such as merica or the Lebanon.
In order to carry through this olicy it is not simply Us forces in he United States itself that are be ag made more flexible. cular United States forces Vestern Europe have been made nore mobile and available for use n other areas.
Under US-West greement of March 1982 90,000 nembers of the West German armd forces are to be permanently employed on duties uick deployment of US military Orces. As of 1 January 1983 Israel, ebanon, and Syria were officially Haced within the area of operaions of US Military urope. Among its other resources Command has at its disposal weta weapons in Western Europe. southwards East and East Africa. 1200 in Lebanon.
Central Facilities the United States in in parin Rapid Deployment Force.
German tatorship of Zia in Pakistan. aid of $3.2 permitting four fifths is allocated wardy ba 'forward' Command Pacific. There Key United States bases abroad the approximately 7000 US nuclear US Military Command Europe Pousan. is in turn backed up by the United States Second Fleet in the Atlantic and the Sixth Fleet in the MediterIn order to extend its forces eastwards trom Europe the United States, since the late 1970s, has begun to drastically expand it permanent deployment of forces and bases in the Middle nuclear among The memorandum On Strategic Cooperation signed by the United States and Israel in November 1981 gives US armed forces unlimited rights to the use of Israeli military bases. Under the Camp Dayid Accords the United States has at its disposal the Etzion and Eitam air bases in the Sinai Peninsula and the Sharm-El-Sheikh naval base to its south. The United States also has bases in Egypt at Cairo, Ras Benas and other areas. There are in addition 800 US troops in Sinai and In Africa and the Middle East 1980 signed military agreements with Bahrain, Oman, Somalia, and Kenya. These will all provide facilities for the To the south of the USSR the United States has put particular resources into propping up the dicUS billion has been designated to Pakistan of which declares tor armaments and military expenditure.
completing the US system, are the United States military forces in the 42,000 •US troops in South Korea including major land naval and air bases al Osan, Kounsan, Kou, Seoul and Approximately nuclear weapons are also stationed in South Korea.
There are a further 50,000 US troops in Japan. Recently both the Japanese and South Korean forces have been reinforced with advanced F-16 fighter-bombers. These can be used both for conventional weapons delivery and for attacks. The F16s the most. advanced planes in the world and are the same type of aircraft as used by Israel for its precision attack on the nuclear reactor in Irag.
Deployment Supporting the forward US forces in South Korea and Japan are the B-52 stategic bomber base in Guam and the American Seventh Fleet — whose areas of deployment is the entire Pacific Ocean.
The American military system forms a perfect arc around the Soviet Union. It is also suitably poised to intevene in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. The US base system is the most powerful advanced military structure in the If it is remembered that in 1962 the United States threatened world war because of the presence 01 Soviet missiles in just one country - Cuba, then the real role of these US forces is obvious.
The United States today maintains a strategic military presence througout the entire Many other country that seeks to get the same capacity is engaged in 'aggression'. No other purpose than preparation for wars can be served by this system of bases. The greatest single threat to peace in the world today is simply the United States. IN 1981 the United States carried through a major reorganisation of its forces in Central America and the Caribbean. It established a new regional command to establish new bases in the area and coordinate existing United States Panama, Puerto and the Guantanamo base in Cuba.
The background to this was not simply the Nicaragua and Grenada but also the rising civil war in El Salvador.
In El Salvador itself 35,000 people have been slaughtered in the last five years. The US has beer supplying continuously the regime of gangsters and murderers such as Major Roberto d'Aubuisson.
Now the United States has announced a major stepping up of the right wing against the Salvadorean guerillas of the FMLN. the United States establish 10 to one superiority of government forces against the FMLN. This will use up nearly all the f400 million of additional aid which the Reagan administration is proposing to send to El Salvador in 1984/85.
The relatively acknowledges that the Salvadorean regime can hold on only by military means. As one Reagan source put it, The Salvadoreans enough troops enough guns to prevent a collapse and maintain the stalemate'. This 'stalemate' at 37,000 troops. 'Victory' that elusive thing the Americans usUS US war least forces in army.
Rica, Bermuda 'advisors' revolutions in recent Salvador.
dictatorship's war ship The stated aim of now to tion grow.
in the field posed Salvadorean administration openly still have still have take present requires - that's in El Salvador.
Socialist Action 27 January 1984 ed to keep promising in Vietnam -needs an army in El Salvador of at 80,000 according to US sources. There is no way that the Salvadorean military could train and adequately staff such a large So as the Salvadorean army increases so will the number of US shades of Vietnam. Kissinger in his once again evoking report, thinks the Salvadoreans will need more advisors than forseen at present but, just as he lied for Nixon over Vietnam and Cambodia, so Kissinger cheerfully lies for Reagan over El Kissinger declared victory would 'only entail a slight increase in the number of advisors.' In reality the Americans intend to even more sophisticated weapons into El Salvador so also will the need for direct US intervenThen comes the real crunch. US planners are scared that their proexpansion the might not materialise and even worse some are dubious that it will not turn the tide in any case. So what happens then? Does the US get out of the country or do they increase their own involvement? It does not take much imagination to decide which road a Reagan or Kissinger will The road the US military trod in Vietnam is also beginning to open up in the same ominous way
New goals for Socialist Action fund drive IN DECEMBER we set some pretty ambitious targets for Socialist Action. The idea was to put an end to our асcumulating debts in the Year start to get the paper on a sound financial footing.
We campaigned among supporters up and down the country to raise their commitment to the fund drive and at the same time started drastically slashing our weekly expenditure.
So far we have promises from regular contributors to step up fund drive payments by £350 week. We calculate that when everyone has made up Socialist Action 27 January 1984 ing.
of achievcutting everything which essential.
That tackle the both individual supporters big companies. We reckon paper dare leave front.
We advertising all looked at must ask that all speakers get paid, even in London where paying a fixed rate means that supporters in towns like Aberdeen do not have to the full cost themselves.
This is just one example of our tightening Little things, big things - nothing is exempt from the economy drive. We are looking for tenants to take over the lease on our Upper St premises. As soon as this happens we Will move into a new It's very nice having premises in Islington, but we cannot afford a threatened doubling of rent.
Of course, the full costs of moving will be enormous, but it is notjust in the next year that savings have to be made. want at 328 Upper Street page paper - which we do then we have to think about balancing that budget in the years ahead.
Just as soon as the current books balanced we will be asking our readers to help us with funds to move. Of course, money you give now won't be wasted. We are opening a special fund for the move which will be kept for just that purpose. We asking our readers two things:
• If you do not make a regular payment to the paper take out a standing order by filling in the form on the back page. If you regularly give money to the paper - have you raised your contribution since December?
• Do you have a larger sum you might consider using to help WHAT'S THE EXPLANATION? us move, or know of anyone else who does? Don't hesitate to phone discuss what's possible.
Remember that however bad your finances, the Tories will make them worse, and worse and worse. It is only through up the strength of the left that the rot can be stopped We think Socialist Action is vital to that struggle.
WHEN THE
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