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A central feature of the Pentagon’s strategic pivot to Asia is a rebalancing of the military’s global force posture. The Navy, for example, is planning to deploy some 60 per cent of its ships to this region, including forward basing a number of its new Littoral Combat Ships. The naval and air base
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Date:
6/26/2012
The Pentagon's recently enunciated Asia-Pacific posture has focused attention on the military needs of U.S. friends and allies in the Western Pacific. Because the U.S. has relatively few bases there and is operating thousands of miles from home, it must rely on local partners to carry much of the
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Date:
5/25/2012
The current debate over the timing of the U.S. withdrawal of forces from Iraq is misplaced. The retention of a relatively small number of U.S. troops in that country would not have measurably affected its political stability. Conversely, the withdrawal of those forces will not particularly incentivize
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Date:
1/20/2012
On October 6 the Heritage Foundation released an issue brief as part of its "Foundry" series that questioned the danger of U.S. dependence on China for so-called "rare earths." Rare earths are exotic materials used in a wide range of military and commercial applications. There are no ready substitutes
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Date:
10/8/2010
One little noticed decision reached at the G-20 Summit was to postpone the transfer of wartime command of allied forces on the Korean Peninsula, originally scheduled for April 2012, until 2015. According to President Obama, "This gives us appropriate time -- within the existing security context
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Date:
6/29/2010