The Asia-Pacific Defense FORUM is a professional military journal published quarterly by the Commander of the United States Pacific Command to provide an international forum for military personnel of the Asian and Pacific areas.

Forum is produced under contract with RS Information Systems, McLean, Virginia, for editorial services and with Kenner, Honolulu, Hawaii, for electronic design services.

  The opinions expressed in this magazine do not necessarily represent the views or policies of this command or any other agency of the U.S. Government.

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  Some articles have been edited to meet space requirements. The photo-graphs are from U.S. military sources unless otherwise stated.

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