DoD’s “Global Force Posture Review” Driven by China Threat

DoD’s “Global Force Posture Review” Driven by China Threat: A former deputy assistant secretary of the Navy, Seth Cropsey, says that the growing US force presence in East Asia is a direct response to China's military rise. China's increasingly assertive claims to the South China Sea, he says, "focus attention on the South Asian [and] Southeast Asian archipelagos through which the shipping lanes pass, and I think that American policy is simply responding to a natural strategic imperative." “U.S. Military Buildup In Asia-Pacific Region Just Beginning” (Inside The Navy) March 25, www.InsideDefense.com