Civil Beat views US military in Pacific

SUBHEAD: Will a military buildup in far-flung Pacific island territories destroy their unique environment?

By Juan Wilson on 20 August 2017 for Island Breath -
(http://islandbreath.blogspot.com/2017/08/civil-beat-views-us-military-in-pacific.html)


Image above: Phboto of WWII military plane wreck on Pagan Island. the island is now to be used by American forces for target practice. (http://www.civilbeat.org/2016/12/can-these-islands-survive-americas-military-pivot-to-asia/).

Civil Beat is a Hawaiian news agency that has done an excellent job in investigating a wide range of interests throughout the Hawaiian Islands. It stands head and shoulders above the pathetic efforts of the Garden Island News (owned by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser which is owned by a Canadian corporation Black Press).

Civil Beat is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt news organization dedicated to cultivating an informed body of citizens, all striving to make Hawaii a better place. It uses local reporters and covers local, national and international issues. It is one of the few online news sites IslandBreath supports with donations.

Civil Beat has made an important contribution to a better understanding of American military domination in the Pacific. That imperial effort goes back to the Spanish American War and the takeover of Hawaii and continues to this day. 

Civil Beat has put together several articles in one place called Outpost Pacific (http://www.civilbeat.org/projects/pacific-outpost/) covering issues on the Mariana Islands with specific pieces on Pagan Island, Tinian Island, Guam and Farallon de Medinilla.

Already plans for  RIMPAC 2018 are racing ahead. Those are the Rim of the Pacific war games conducted by the US Navy every even numbered year in and around Hawaii that includes more than a dozen navies.

Kauai's Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) and Makaha Ridge Tracking Facility play a large part in those war games and any real war in the Pacific. That makes Kauai, and those other strategic islands occupied by the US military ground zero for any major conflict involving China, North Korea or Russia.

See:
Civil Beat Chapter 1: Can These Islands Survive America’s Military Pivot To Asia?
Civil Beat Chapter 2: The Fight To Save Pagan Island From US Bombs
Civil Beat Chapter 3: Tinian - "We believed in America"
Civil Beat Chapter 4: Guam - Many In This Military Outpost Welcome More Troops
Civil Beat Chapter 5: Missing Data Plagues Military Training Plans In The Marianas

See also:

Ea O Ka Aina: South Korea's stubborn Peace Effort 8/4/17
Ea O Ka Aina: "No!" to America Militrarism in Hawaii 4/11/17
Ea O Ka Aina: Air Force plans to bomb whales 2/6/17
Ea O Ka Aina: MV-22 Osprey landing at Salt Pond 2/5/17
Ea O Ka Aina: Kauai and Niihau endangered 9/24/16 
Ea O Ka Aina: DLNR responsibility on RIMPAC 7/6/16
Ea O Ka Aina: Oceans4Peace Pacific Pivot Panel 6/18/16
Ea O Ka Aina: Ocean 4 Peace Events 6/11/16
Ea O Ka Aina: Prepare for RIMPAC 2016 War in Hawaii 5/22/16
Ea O Ka Aina: Navy to "take" millions of mammals 5/17/16
Ea O Ka Aina: US court RIMPAC Impact decision 4/3/15
Ea O Ka Aina: RIMPAC 2014 Impact Postmortem 10/22/1
Ea O Ka Aina: Marines backing off 8/24/12
Ea O Ka Aina: Unproved Osprey on Kauai 8/21/12
Ea O Ka Aina: RIMPAC 2014 in Full March 7/16/14
Ea O Ka Aina: 21st Century Energy Wars 7/10/14
Ea O Ka Aina: RIMPAC War on the Ocean 7/3/14
Ea O Ka Aina: Voila - World War Three 7/1/14
Ea O Ka Aina: The Pacific Pivot 6/28/14
Ea O Ka Aina: RIMPAC IMPACT 6/8/14
Ea O Ka Aina: RIMPAC Then and Now 5/16/14
Ea O Ka Aina: Earthday TPP Fukushima RIMPAC 4/22/14
Ea O Ka Aina: The Asian Pivot - An ugly dance 12/5/13
Ea O Ka Aina: Help save Mariana Islands 11/13/13
Ea O Ka Aina: End RimPac destruction of Pacific 11/1/13 
Ea O Ka Aina: Moana Nui Confereence 11/1/13
Ea O Ka Aina: Navy to conquer Marianas again  9/3/13
Ea O Ka Aina: Pagan Island beauty threatened 10/26/13
Ea O Ka Aina: Navy license to kill 10/27/12 
Ea O Ka Aina: Sleepwalking through destruction 7/16/12
Ea O Ka Aina: Okinawa breathes easier 4/27/12
Ea O Ka Aina: Navy Next-War-Itis 4/13/12
Ea O Ka Aina: America bullies Koreans 4/13/12
Ea O Ka Aina: Despoiling Jeju island coast begins 3/7/12
Ea O Ka Aina: Jeju Islanders protests Navy Base 2/29/12
Ea O Ka Aina: Hawaii - Start of American Empire 2/26/12
Ea O Ka Aina: Korean Island of Peace 2/26/12   
Ea O Ka Aina: Military schmoozes Guam & Hawaii 3/17/11
Ea O Ka Aina: In Search of Real Security - One 8/31/10
Ea O Ka Aina: Peace for the Blue Continent 8/10/10
Ea O Ka Aina: Shift in Pacific Power Balance 8/5/10
Ea O Ka Aina: RimPac to expand activities 6/29/10
Ea O Ka Aina: RIMPAC War Games here in July 6/20/10
Ea O Ka Aina: Pacific Resistance to U.S. Military 5/24/10
Ea O Ka Aina: De-colonizing the Pacific 5/21/10
Ea O Ka Aina: RIMPAC to Return in 2010 5/2/10
Ea O Ka Aina: Living at the Tip of the Spear 4/5/10
Ea O Ka Aina: Living at the Tip of the Spear 4/15/10
Ea O Ka Aina: Guam Land Grab 11/30/09
Ea O Ka Aina: Guam as a modern Bikini Atoll 12/25/09
Ea O Ka Aina: GUAM - Another Strategic Island 11/8/09
Ea O Ka Aina: Diego Garcia - Another stolen island 11/6/09
Ea O Ka Aina: DARPA & Super-Cavitation on Kauai 3/24/09
Island Breath: RIMPAC 2008 - Navy fired up in Hawaii 7/2/08
Island Breath: RIMPAC 2008 uses destructive sonar 4/22/08
Island Breath: Navy Plans for the Pacific 9/3/07
Island Breath: Judge restricts sonar off California 08/07/07
Island Breath: RIMPAC 2006 sonar compromise 7/9/06
Island Breath: RIMPAC 2006 - Impact on Ocean 5/23/06
Island Breath: RIMPAC 2004 - Whale strandings on Kauai 9/2/04
Island Breath: PMRF Land Grab 3/15/04 



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