Disaster relief has increasingly become part of the justification for increased U.S. troop deployments in the Asia-Pacific region.

By Annie Isabel Fukushima, Ayano Ginoza, Michiko Hase, Gwyn Kirk, Deborah Lee and Taeva Shefler, March 11, 2014.

http://fpif.org/disaster-militarism-rethinking-u-s-relief-asia-pacific/