Word: naval
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Ever since U.S. forces destroyed the Japanese Navy in World War II, the Pacific Ocean has been, in military terms, an American lake. From naval bases in the Aleutian Islands and southward to Subic Bay in the Philippines, 107 U.S. warships and 51 submarines project commanding seapower. Ashore, mostly in South Korea, Japan and Okinawa, 120,000 American troops are poised to deter aggression along the Pacific's western rim. Now, with the Soviet threat waning under the U.S.S.R.'s economic and ideological decay, is that U.S. military presence still necessary...
...Command in Panama, there will be no American troops left in the region after the U.S. completes the withdrawal of its invasion force from Panama, perhaps by the end of this month. Bush hopes that once those assurances are given, Barco will agree to the deployment of the antismuggling naval task force and the installation of a U.S.-built radar system that would be turned over to Colombia's antidrug forces...
...Navy should continue to play the central role in the global projection of U.S. might, though that should be possible with fewer aircraft carriers plus additional transport ships. It is also time for arms-control talks to be expanded to include reducing naval forces...
Aoun, who commands 15,000 troops, apparently underestimated the 10,000- strong Phalangists, who not only held their own but overran a naval base, a landing strip and an army garrison held by Aoun's forces...
...gain firsthand evidence, naval agents managed to recruit a key officer of the Star Friendship Association. The man, who had had a falling-out with one of the companies in the group, agreed to wear a hidden microphone at its meetings. The club operated with almost comic formality. A day or two after new contracts were announced by the Navy, the group would meet in downtown Yokosuka. "They would determine who was interested in bidding on specific contracts," says a U.S. official. "Then they would break up into smaller groups to decide who would get the award...