Access To Pacific Harbors Key To U.s. Strategy: Panetta

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Sun, 06/03/2012 - 4:34am

CAM RANH BAY, Vietnam (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta visited a deep-water Vietnamese port near the contested South China Sea on Sunday, calling access to such harbors critical as the U.S. shifts 60 percent of its warships to the Asia-Pacific by 2020.

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