Posted on 08/26/2014 9:31:34 AM PDT by Matt_DZ_PL
The caves in the Norwegian countryside are part of the Marine Corps’ global prepositioning program, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
The rarely discussed program began during the Cold War as a way for the US to store weapons and vehicles in Europe and several locations across the world in case the Pentagon wanted to use them in war against the Soviet Union.
The Marine Corps is overseeing the current deployment of the military equipment in the Norway cave system, which was established in 1981, Marine officials said.
According to the Post, the Pentagon has over 700,000 square feet (65,032 square meters) facilities in Norway, including six climate-controlled caves and two airfields.
Much of what stored in the caves were pulled out for the US-led wars against Afghanistan and Iraq.
In February, a number of vehicles were taken out for Exercise Cold Response 2014, a military maneuver in which they served primarily as stuff to load on US transport ships to test out new piers.
According to Marine officials, the planned US military expansion in Norway has been under consideration since 2013.
The Pentagon has apparently decided to bolster its equipment in Norway at a time when tensions between the United States and Russia are very high over the crisis in Ukraine and a number of other issues.
In an interview with Press TV in May, American Professor James Petras said, the United States is implementing a global strategy of encircling Russia.
In March, Petras told Press TV that the world is heading towards the biggest crisis since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis when the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a 13-day nuclear confrontation.
“I think we are entering a period of revival of a very intense Cold War” between Russia and the US, he said, adding that US President Barack “Obama has finally broken the string of any possibility of reaching a peaceful coexistence with Russia.”
Nothing is top secret anymore. Even if we have a failed mission.
Does anyone else feel like it’s just the Obama Administration that’s “heading towards a Cold War”?
Putin says thanks for the map; we’ll target accordingly.
Oh good.
Now when the Islamists conquer Norway (which they have already started) they will have a swell supply of weapons to use against someone else,.
Jimmy Carter’s also failed and it took a Hollyweird “actor” to solve the problem without firing one single shot!!!
Whatever to say about Obama, it wasn't the USA (West) to break the peaceful coexistence invading Crimea.
Is this disclosure part of Obama being more flexible?
Is this disclosure part of Obama being more flexible?
The Russians have known all about this for a long time.
Yup, the benefits of compartmentalization, right?
Delta: “Look, the SEALs screwed one up. Should have given it to us”
SEALs: “Look, Delta screwed one up. Should have given it to us”
And apart from a select few, no one is the wiser about there having been no mission at all.
Keep in mind that this is an Iranian site. Nothing that you read or see here is likely to be anything like the truth.
I remember our exercise “Northern Wedding” in Norway back in ‘86. It was cold and the Soviets were all over the place. They had a submarines tailing our ships and aircraft flying around us until we entered Norway’s waters.
I wonder if they were shocked when they got mooned?
Putin is heading to world war, we had better prepare fast.
Nothing scares the poop out of Putin like prepositioned water buffalos.
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