Tag Archives: Pacific

Enabling the Asian Pivot: “Aegis is my Wingman”

President Obama has emphasized that the U.S. as it shifts from its focus on the land wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is focusing upon Asia.  This so-called pivot to Asia is all about re-shaping, re-crafting and re-organizing U.S. forces to …

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Littoral Challenges Facing the US Navy in the Pacific

Rear Admiral Jim Beebe USN, retired, currently the Executive Director of the  Naval Air Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet. We have a certain way of defining littorals today.  The whole issue of anti-access area denial as influenced from the land base …

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The Pacific Dimension: Sizing the Challenge

The key to understanding any human conflicts in the Pacific is to first recognize both the natural power and size of that Ocean.

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