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The hallmark of the Obama Administration’s new defense strategy is the so-called pivot to the Asia-Pacific region. The administration argued that such a move was necessitated by the growing importance of the Asia-Pacific region economically and politically, the presence in the region of the only
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Date:
10/26/2012
The Obama Administration’s new national security strategy envisions a so-called pivot to the Asia-Pacific region which involves the deployment of the greatest share of U.S. military assets to that region as well as investments in new capabilities and operational concepts to deal with the emerging
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Date:
9/26/2012
The U.S. Army sees itself as the service that had to pay the price to get the job done in Iraq and Afghanistan, and rightly so. Ten years of air interdiction of the former and a rapid, air-dominated operation in the latter were not enough to achieve U.S. objectives. Nor was the initial combined
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Date:
2/17/2012
The centerpiece of the Obama Administration’s new defense strategy is described as a “pivot” to the Asia-Pacific region. It is remarkable that one of the most significant strategic decisions of the past quarter century, the decision to abandon a two ocean, two war approach in favor of a concentration
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Date:
2/16/2012

