PACOM Policy Straddling Partnerships and Talk of U.S. 'Pre-Eminence'

By Sebastian Sprenger / July 16, 2008 at 5:00 AM

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U.S. Pacific Command's need to cooperate with countries in its area of responsibility must be balanced with talk of America's "military pre-eminence" in the region, PACOM Commander Adm. Timothy Keating said today. His comments came months after the Pentagon published its newest estimate of China's military capabilities. The report said Beijing is increasingly pursuing high-end weaponry that could be used to strike faraway U.S. ships en-route to the communist country ( DefenseAlert , June 26). China is in PACOM's area...

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