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Rebalancing Toward The Asia-Pacific Requires The ‘Three Mores,’ Dempsey Says

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, July 18th, 2012

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Mutual security cooperation and building partner capacity and capability are part of the U.S. military strategy as it refocuses toward the Asia Pacific region from 11 years of effort in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff yesterday offered his thoughts and discussed the change at a National Guard Symposium in Washington D.C. Gen. Martin Dempsey said rebalancing toward the Asia-Pacific region is a matter of “three mores:” “more attention…more engagement…and more quality.” That means…

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