The U.S. Army plans to set up equipment depots in a number of Asian countries, including Cambodia and Vietnam.

By Franz-Stefan Gady

The U.S. Army plans to set up equipment depots–so-called equipment activity sets–in a number of Asian countries, including Cambodia and Vietnam, the top officer of the U.S. Army’s Materiel Command said at a conference, Defense News reports. General Dennis Via, speaking at this year’s Association of the United States Global Force Symposium and Exposition, said that the Army plans to set up eight equipment activity sets around the globe. However, Asia-Pacific equipment activity sets will differ from other equipment caches that the Army maintains in, for example, Europe, the general notes.

“Army prepositioned stocks are go-to-war equipment,” Via explained when discussing European activity sets. According to Breaking Defense, the European equipment depots hold 200 M1 Abrams heavy tanks 87 tanks, 138 M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, and 18 M109 Paladin self-propelled howitzers.

The Army Materiel Command also recently sent 5,000 tons of ammunition to Europe, the largest delivery of its kind since the end of World War II. General Via explained that it is the responsibility of his command to “provide our Army and the joint force with strategic reach, allowing units to quickly deploy and fall into equipment that is highly modernized.”

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No need for agent orange , napalm , dioxins,....They already have plenty of that.

World politics are so complex. Rarely are country relationships black and white.

The USA

- confronted Communist USSR in the Cold War

- embargoed Communist Cuba

- fought Communist insurgents in South and Central America

- fought Communist China and North Korea in the North Korean war

- fought Communist Chinese proxy Communist North Vietnam

- aided Thailand against Communist insurgents

Now the USA welcomes Communist Vietnam into Trans-Pacific Partnership, assists in prpotecting Vietnam resource interests in the South China Sea and plans to set up military equipment depots in Vietnam. Something you find in common in the Superpowers is their pragmatic approach to global politics.