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Most Australians are aware that the US military has a presence in the north of the continent, although many would be dumbfounded by the extent of Washington’s current soft colonisation of the region, and there are further circumstances raising eyebrows about the Northern Territory, which is the Finocchiaro ministry’s law-and-order drive, and the two appear to be working in tandem.
US military thinktank the Centre for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments produced a report on Northern Australia’s Role in the Australia-US Alliance, which insists that if Australia is going to stay relevant in the present Indo Pacific, at a time when Chinese military power is on the rise, then our government must ensure that this “critical piece of real estate” now “be fortified into a stronghold”.
“Northern Australia can serve as a venue where friendly forces train and experiment in peacetime, as the base from which they deploy, and as a hub that sustains them in wartime,” writes the CSBA, as it reimagines the Northern Territory as a playland for US marines. This assessment from some overseas thinktank, too suggests this country needs to invest “to sustain operations in a protracted conflict”.
Just to give something of an idea of the floating US army base this continent is becoming, 2,500 US marines are stationed in Darwin, soon six nuclear-capable B-52 fighters will be on the ready there, a joint US-UK nuclear powered submarine force is being establish off the coast Perth on Noongar land, while Washington’s most important nondomestic intel facility Pine Gap is in the Red Centre.
Much of this has been underway over the last decade, but momentum is now growing, and while constituents have been looking on aghast at the NT Country Liberals government’s first 12 months in office, as it has enacted a swag of tough-on-crime laws that have facilitated a crackdown on the domestic population, this isn’t as confusing when achieving a fortified stronghold is the end goal.