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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An MRC in the Western Pacific will probably require more surface combatants and sealift than were deployed in OIF.
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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.
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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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.
The United States naturally remained in Israel's corner but, alongside it, was to be found largely a small collection of diplomatic minnows including the Western Pacific Territories of Palau and Micronesia.
Hainan Island's strategic location provides quick access to the critical sea lines of communication that lead to northeastern Asia and Australia, plus ready access to the broad reaches of the Western Pacific.
Complicating matters further is the fact that the richest petroleum deposits lie in the Okinawa Trough, an 8, 200-foot (2.5 kilometer) gash in the seafloor that separates the Chinese continental shelf from the Western Pacific.
James Cameron, the director of "Avatar, " and Richard Branson, with Virgin Oceanic, are each planning to head for the deepest seas of the western Pacific with single-person subs that travel hundreds of feet a minute.
They also favor naval power, but ships take a much longer time than planes to get places in the vast expanses of the Western Pacific, and the Navy has little in the way of long-range aircraft.
Rehabilitate coral reefs in the Western Pacific.
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Japan has been on the fringes of the program since at least 1993, when Mitsubishi Heavy, Mitsubishi Electric, Mitsubishi Corp. (the three are independent), NEC, Hitachi and Fujitsu participated in the bilateral Western Pacific Missile Defense Architecture Study.
For the defense industry, though, the shift to a focus on Western Pacific security will be a boon, because sustaining U.S. presence there requires precisely the kinds of big-ticket weapons that recent administrations have been loathe to fund.
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Duty later called Safferstein to the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific, where U.S. forces had built airfields to launch long-range raids on Japan itself, and in mid-1945 the two bombs from Los Alamos had been secretly delivered by Navy ship.
In theory, the Air Force has many hundreds of tactical aircraft like the F-15E fighter-bomber that might be used to prosecute an air campaign in the Western Pacific, but those planes have limited ranges and thus would be heavily dependent on aerial refueling.
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The Fourth Technical Workshop of the IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (WESTPAC) on Ocean Forecasting System will take place in Bogor, Indonesia, 5-6 March 2013 with the kind host of the Research and Development Agency for Marine and Fisheries Research, Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries of Indonesia.
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More than 200 years of Spanish colonialism, a Western-Pacific heritage and the current American control are stirred together for a number of unique local dishes, like the Chorizo Breakfast Bowl.
What makes the law discriminatory and misleading is that tuna caught elsewhere, like the Western Central Pacific where U.S. fishing fleets operate, may be labeled dolphin safe without any certification that dolphins were not harmed.
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The pilot of the Cessna 210 declared an emergency for unknown reasons around 6:10 p.m. shortly after leaving Santa Monica Airport, according to Ian Gregor, a spokesman with the Federal Aviation Administration in its Western-Pacific region.
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But in the case of smaller businesses in struggling industries with a large concentration of older executives in the plan, like Pacific Western, keeping a plan might seem like more trouble than it is worth.
It puts at risk an important goal for Clinton's second term: to lay the groundwork for creating free-trade areas in the Western Hemisphere and the Pacific.
There will be another total lunar eclipse on 16 July this year, visible from Asia, the Pacific and the western side of the Americas.
This study showed that the Western Equatorial region of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean was as warm, if not warmer, since the end of the last major ice age, approximately 12, 000 years ago.
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With the additional bandwidth, Cisco expects huge growth in data consumption by 2016, with growth up 3x in North America and Western Europe, 4x in Asia Pacific, 5x in Central and Eastern Europe, 7x in Latin America and 10x in Middle East and Africa.
Fanned by winds roaring towards the Pacific coast from the hot western plains of New South Wales, some of the worst bushfires Australia has seen have turned much of the state into an inferno, reaching the northern suburbs of Sydney itself.
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