Well the main reason we have troops their is actually because we wish to control them (in a sense), because of WWII they our most hated adversaries in that war, so we occupied the land and set up military bases there so that they would not try and rise up again (such as Germany after WW1)and we did the same thing with Germany after the war.
So we have our military there For the main reason of keeping them from creating a new one to fight us after the events of WWII, but you do have a point in the sense of Korea and China, as it gives the US a VERY strong Stratigic placement if we were to ever fight them.

I can already visualize the headlines:

"USA lost World War 4 because submarine crews forced their captains to surface every day so they could continue to use their Xboxes, making the submarines an easy target"

Protecting from what, the poor villagers living in mud houses? so brave

People in the military

Ex-military

Their families

Their friends

Patriots who support the military

Having an always connected and listening device in the army sounds dangerous

signing in for war and complaining that it might be a little bit uncomfortable to play next gen games.
I would love to hear my great grandfather on this one if he had similar issues when he was a prisoner of war in russia.

If they go ahead and do that I am sure you would have others wondering why they can't have a XBox One that functions without an internet connection.

This might end up and a "Damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation.

Wow, you like to sink your arguements, I see. If poor villagers living in mud houses aren't a threat then why are you suggesting the military to kill people? Who are they gonna kill, the poor villagers living in mud houses?

I'm done.

Right now it's more disgusting to see people here still defending Microsoft and basically telling military personal to go f them selves.

OK, new slogan for MS:

"XBone, the console that makes taliban gamers snigger"