"US Military power in Asia Grew After WW2, but...." Topic

…. DO WE STILL NEED BASES THERE?

"The U.S. military victory over Japanese Imperial forces on August 14, 1945, signified the end of the bloodiest conflict in modern history. It also ushered in a historic shift in global power, creating a growing and lasting U.S. military presence in Asia that has continued to this day—but not without its opponents.

Only days after the world's first atomic bomb attacks killed up to 250,000 people in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan officially surrendered to the U.S. and fellow Allied powers, including the Soviet Union and the U.K, ending World War II. The event was known as V-J Day and is officially commemorated in the U.S. on September 2, the date in which the surrender document was signed. The Empire of Japan was then dismantled and, for the first time in the country's history, Japan was occupied by a foreign power.

The U.S. military occupation formally ended only years later in 1951, but the bases remained as a friendly Japanese government took over. Today, there are 122 "military base sites" in Japan, predominantly in Okinawa prefecture. With local and regional tensions mounting, anthropology professor and author David Vine said there are "very few reasons" to keep these installations today…."
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The US maintains bases in Asia for the same reasons she maintains them anywhere else since the end of WWII, and that is to establish forward positions, military presence and logistical infrastructure around the world in keeping with her role as guardian of the Free World and defender of the existing liberal democratic globalist world order, as well as to counter the ambitions of adversarial powers to establish their own competing regional orders such as the "New Silk Road" in the case of China and "Eurasianism" in the case of Russia.