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February 22, 2002; Contained within the new U.S. defense budget are three indicators of new strategies:
@ An Atlantic Fleet carrier will move to the Pacific, allowing the US to keep three carriers at sea in that theater (Indian Ocean, China, south Pacific).
@ The conversion of four Trident nuclear submarines to carry cruise missiles for shore bombardment, long discussed, is on a fast track.
@ Lots of money is going into new sensors to gather information and new computer systems to assemble, collate, and process it.--Stephen V Cole