By Paul McLeary with Ariel Robinson
The flap over Down Under. The comments by a senior U.S. Defense Department official about American B-1 bombers and surveillance planes possibly being stationed in Australia have caused quite a stir Down Under, where defense officials maintain that “the official misspoke.”
But neither Australian nor American officials will deny that talks over the planes are ongoing, and sources on both sides admit that the Australian-U.S. security relationship continues to grow, and the expansion of American presence in the region will continue. They just won’t say exactly how.
One Pentagon official told FP that the deployment of bombers …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
