Excerpt from Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2005, Vol. 2: Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session; Seapower, March 3 and 10, 2004 The View was, particularly after September 11, that there was a need for the Navy to look at its presence with a purpose in a global sense. We needed to dramatically change the striking power that we brought to sea when we were there, because of these compelling issues you get into in terms of timing, trying to make a difference, trying to be decisive on scene, trying to shape the battle space quickly. Because this is one of the things we're being driven into is this: can we do things more quickly before things get out of con trol? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.