{"id":30230,"date":"2012-06-03T11:44:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T15:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30230"},"modified":"2012-06-03T11:44:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T15:44:29","slug":"questions-that-dont-get-asked-enough-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30230","title":{"rendered":"Questions That Don&#8217;t Get Asked Enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has been talking about re-tasking our Navy towards the Pacific by 2020 AND he&#8217;s taking active steps in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/2012\/06\/navy-singapore-host-4-littoral-combat-ships-060212d\/\" target=\"_blank\">Singapore\u00a0<\/a>and in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/panetta-wants-more-us-access-vietnam-harbor-113628267.html\" target=\"_blank\">Vietnam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although he couches his words carefully China appears to be the focus. \u00a0Offshore\u00a0petroleum \u00a0(which doesn&#8217;t apparently interest many in DC) and freedom of the seas are mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>I have little problem with the notion in general, but would like to understand where these assets will come from?<\/p>\n<p>Will the Navy be downsized as a &#8220;peace dividend&#8221;? Do we have warships somewhere currently they aren&#8217;t needed?<\/p>\n<p>And while I&#8217;m certainly no expert in geopolitics it seems that China could painfully swat the US economy without firing a shot if needs be?<\/p>\n<p>So the question seems to be &#8211; Why now, and why there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has been talking about re-tasking our Navy towards the Pacific by 2020 &hellip; <a title=\"Questions That Don&#8217;t Get Asked Enough?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30230\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Questions That Don&#8217;t Get Asked Enough?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}