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Policy study calls for increasing US Marine force in northern Australia by 8 fold
A U.S. Marine posts security during an air-assault exercise at Bloomsbury Airfield in Midge Point, Australia, June 28, 2023. (Stars and Stripes) Australia should welcome a U.S. Marine Corps rotational force eight times the size of one that now spends six …