The Pentagon is planning to deploy thousands of US Marines and other military forces to East Asia in a bid to form a front against China, a new report has revealed.
According to the new plan, the administration of US President Donald Trump would authorize deploying Marine Expeditionary Units, or MEUs, to the region, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier in the week.
Comprising about 2,200 Marines complete with their own aircraft, tanks and other heavy weaponry, the MEUs will be deployed in rotating seven-month tours.
Some of the troops are said to be deployed from bases in the Middle East, where the US has been engaged in the so-called wars on terror for yearin countries like Iraq and Afghanistan.
The US also has around 50,000 service members in Japan, almost 30,000 in South Korea, and 7,000 more in the Pacific territory of Guam.
The Pentagon is also expected to increase the number of its Marines deployed in Darwin, Australia, where…