03-25-2009, 02:02 AM
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The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
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In May, the government said Australia's defence budget would increase by 3.0 percent to around 22.6 billion dollars (18.2 billion US) and committed itself to extending real growth in defence spending by 3.0 percent a year until 2018.
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For instance, within a relatively short period of two to three years, Japan has: (1) sent Self Defense Force (SDF) troops to Iraq; (2) begun maintaining a quasi-permanent maritime presence in the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea; (3) decided to implement sea-based missile defense, the first country among the U.S. allies to do so; (4) started to reorient its defense posture toward China; and (5) decided to revise its Constitution, in order to enable the nation to engage in collective self-defense with its ally, the United States.
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We may get a show, yet.
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