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    I've created this thread after several posts on the 'China tells navy to prepare for combat' veered away to discussing historical and current naval strategy, alongside sharp exchanges on the perception - trying to be diplomatic - of naval power being abused. Yes, notably by the USN.

    You need to visit the original thread to gain some context:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ad.php?t=14686

    Now back to Bob.

    All Navies have this mandate. Right?

    The Chinese want so much to be like the US. They aren't, and won't be.

    An interesting article. After reading through the thread I did a quick Google search to see what others had written about when the US Navy rose to challenge the British Navy that we had relied upon since the Monroe Doctrine to protect the rise of US power. Interestingly, the article most on point was written by the Chinese...

    http://cjip.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/1/83.full
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