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Monday, March 19, 2012

USS Missouri ready for Navy's new mission

[USS Missouri]For the last decade, submarines have been gathering intelligence and patrolling the world's oceans to make sure the Navy's fleet could get where it needed to go, while the Army and Marines fought ground wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But military strategists believe the next battleground will be the sea. In the last year, the submarine force has ordered its sub commanders to aggressively ready their boats.

The strategic focus is shifting to the Asia-Pacific region. China, Russia, India, the United Kingdom and France have nuclear-powered submarines. Pakistan, Brazil and Australia want them.

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