along with other foreign navies, including Australia, Japan and India, to make port calls at Cam Ranh Bay,” Grossman said. “As part of this strategy, Vietnam has invited the U.S. In 2009, then-Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung declared the port’s commercial facilities open to foreign navies, with the U.S. Today, it is home to the 4th Regional Command of the Vietnam People’s Navy. The port was home to a Soviet Pacific fleet beginning in 1980 and later used as a Russian submarine base and listening post until 2002. Air Force base were located in Cam Ranh Bay. During the Vietnam War of the 1960s and 1970s, a U.S. “Cam Ranh Bay is closer in proximity than are any of the bases in the Philippines.”Īlong with Manila Bay, the port is considered one of the great natural harbors in Southeast Asia.
Navy to operate out of the bay, the United States “would have prime real estate from which to challenge China in both the Paracel and Spratly islands,” Derek Grossman, senior defense analyst at Rand Corp., told FORUM. Navy vessels have visited Cam Ranh Bay over the past decade.
naval visits to Cam Ranh Bay in the country’s southeast, marking a reversal of decades of policy, a defense expert contends. Vietnam’s growing concerns over tension in the South China Sea may soon result in increased U.S.
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