{"id":13269,"date":"2013-08-22T17:54:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T12:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=13269"},"modified":"2013-08-22T19:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T13:43:00","slug":"us-plan-to-station-military-aircraft-in-trivandrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/us-plan-to-station-military-aircraft-in-trivandrum\/","title":{"rendered":"US plan to station military aircraft in Trivandrum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If reports are to be believed United States government is preparing to station military aircraft in India as part of its \u201c<strong>Asia pivot<\/strong>&#8221; policy and is looking at <a title=\"entecity.com\" href=\"http:\/\/entecity.com\"><strong>Trivandrum<\/strong><\/a> as their base. A top US Air Force general who was part of the policy group on Indo-US military relations said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>General Herbert \u201cHawk\u201d <strong>Carlisle<\/strong>, chief of the Pacific air forces under the US military\u2019s Pacific Command, has visited Trivandrum. Carlisle said the US was not setting up new bases in the Asia-Pacific but would continuously \u201crotate\u201d its military assets in a revival of a \u201cCheckered Flag\u201d policy from the years of the Cold War.<\/p>\n<p>Many international media reported that, the latest move is a Pentagon&#8217;s big, new strategy called <strong>Air-Sea Battle<\/strong>, a concept that&#8217;s nominally about combining air and naval forces to punch through the increasingly-formidable defences of nations like China and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Air Force is planning to lease 33 acres of land on the tiny <strong>Pacific island of Saipan<\/strong> for the next 50 years to build a &#8220;divert airfield&#8221; on an old World War II airbase there. US also plan on building additional aircraft parking space, hangars, fuel storage tanks, and ammunition storage facilities, in the island.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the site on Saipan, the US Air Force plans to send aircraft on regular deployments to bases ranging from India to Australia. The plans include regular deployments to Royal Australian Air Force bases at Darwin and Tindal,<strong> Trivandrum<\/strong> in India, Korat air base in Thailand, Changi East air base in Singapore and bases at Cubi Point and Puerto Princesa in the Philippines and airfields in Indonesia and Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong>Indian defence ministry<\/strong> source said that they have never discussed any such proposal. The disclosure by the American General has the potential to stir up trouble for the UPA government in the run-up to elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If reports are to be believed United States government is preparing to station military aircraft in India as part of its \u201cAsia pivot&#8221; policy and is looking at Trivandrum as their base. A top US Air Force general who was part of the policy group on Indo-US military relations said in a statement on Tuesday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-13269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}