America is the pre-eminent military power in the western Pacific and wants to stay that way.
This is a particular concern in the Western Pacific where tomorrow's most formidable powers are emerging.
Plans are being made to drastically scale back naval operations in the Middle East and Western Pacific.
In the lionfish's native waters, the western Pacific Ocean, the local ecosystem has adjusted to such predatory behaviour.
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More recently, they tested a maneuvering ballistic missile warhead capable of hitting U.S. aircraft carriers in the Western Pacific.
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The USS Kitty Hawk , normally the only US aircraft carrier stationed in the western Pacific, has joined it.
An MRC in the Western Pacific will probably require more surface combatants and sealift than were deployed in OIF.
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China's anti-ship ballistic missile clearly is aimed at denying the U.S. Navy freedom of action in the Western Pacific.
America could be deflected from its primary goal of balancing the power of a rising China in the western Pacific.
It enables every other facet of combat capability, and it is especially relevant in the vast distances of the Western Pacific.
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Political and economic power is shifting from Europe, where distances are relatively small, to the Western Pacific, where distances are huge.
The islands of Fiji some 300 of them are splayed across the western Pacific like marbles tossed across a child's playroom.
As U.S. strategy shifts from ground operations in the Middle East to naval-air operations in the Western Pacific, the Navy deserves more attention.
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What happens in major cities on the western Pacific Rim could provide an early indication of what's to come for the United States.
For example, the sea services will largely cease operating in South America and scale back operations in the Middle East and Western Pacific.
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Its goal is clear: to become the dominant power in the Western Pacific and force our allies to sever their relationship with the United States.
In terms of the Western Pacific, we are present in the South China Sea and East China Sea and elsewhere on a very routine basis.
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Just south of the Taitao Peninsula, the large Golfo de Penas (Gulf of Sorrows) is open to storms from the western Pacific and swells can reach 5m high.
We need to increase our military capability in the Western Pacific, to include our own anti-missile and anti-ship ballistic-missile capabilities as well as enhanced anti-submarine forces.
In the western Pacific, that would mean targeting or putting in jeopardy America's aircraft-carrier groups and its air-force bases in Okinawa, South Korea and even Guam.
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"Some of the partners of the US are dancing along with it as though they have taken stimulants, turning the Western Pacific into a mess, " the newspaper says.
Aircraft carriers and J-15 fighters would further enhance its ability to stop the U.S. intervening in a conflict over Taiwan, and test its control of the Western Pacific.
Once the Pentagon began concentrating on shifting the U.S. strategic focus to the Western Pacific, though, the need for a new bomber a long-range one resurfaced.
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The report published Monday says China is close to attaining enough military muscle to deny the U.S. and allied forces access to much of the Western Pacific rim.
"The assumption that U.S. and allied naval surface vessels can operate with high security in all parts of the Western Pacific is no longer valid, " the report said.
Now it is acquiring them, leading policymakers in Washington to a startling realization: if China dominates the Western Pacific, it will control the industrial heartland of the global economy.
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We need open and reliable channels to address perceptions and tensions about our respective activities in the short-term and about our long-term presence and posture in the Western Pacific.
Other Chinese military advances that could counter the U.S. include the development of specialized missiles designed to target large ships, such as U.S. aircraft carriers operating in the Western Pacific.
China's new naval base on Hainan Island for its nuclear-missile, nuclear-attack submarines and aircraft carriers threatens the critical sea lanes from the Straits of Malacca to our key Western Pacific allies.
China has built several sky-wave based Over-the-Horizon radar stations that for the first time allow the PLA to monitor continuously U.S. Navy ship movements hundred miles out in the Western Pacific.
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