Think tank calls for keeping Guam-bound Marines on Okinawa to counter China
By Brian McElhiney Stars and Stripes • February 9, 2026
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The report, released Feb. 3 by the Atlantic Council, recommends keeping about 5,000 Marines on Okinawa rather than relocating them to Guam and retaining the Corps’ airfield in densely populated central Okinawa along with a replacement runaway under construction farther north.
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Sorry, but they should come home to the USA.
“A veteran is someone who at one point in his life wrote a blank check made payable to the ‘United States of America’ for an amount of ‘up to and including my life.'” -Anonymous
Time for the “American Empire” to shrink back to its Constitutional size.
“Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.” ~ Albert Einstein
Let’s bring all the girls, boys, women, and men home now! We have so many politicians and bureaucrats to send in their place if it’s really needed!
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