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Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit storm the coast of Malaysia with amphibious assault vehicles, smoke flares, and explosives on 21 June during Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) 2013. CARAT is a series of exercises between the U.S. Navy and the armed forces of Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Timor Leste. "We seek to deepen our relationships across Southeast Asia," writes the author.
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Roadmap to the Rebalance

The Navy needs to take the long view in delineating the ends, ways, and means of its shift to the Pacific.
By Rear Admiral Michael E. Smith, U.S. Navy
August 2013
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As the Director of the Navy’s Strategy and Policy Division for the past two years, my mission has been to thoughtfully translate higher-level direction into Navy-specific planning and programming guidance to inform our global posture, capability development, and partnership-building efforts. Nowhere will this strategy translation be more important than in the Navy’s support to the ongoing U.S. rebalance to the Asia-Pacific, a region I became deeply familiar with during my previous tours at U.S. Pacific Fleet and Pacific Command. My experiences in the Pentagon and in the region have led me to believe that to implement our rebalance guidance, the Navy must develop a detailed roadmap that clearly articulates a 10- to 20-year time-phased approach. Without such an approach, our system is predisposed to prioritize easily recognized efforts that directly support today’s immediate objectives, at the expense of less obvious efforts that are in fact the initial actions critical to achieving future objectives.

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