“…Enhanced language is employed between the 2010 QDR's second priority to "prevent & deter conflict" and the 2011 NMS's second priority to "maintain strategic deterrent capabilities," "maintain a robust conventional deterrent," and "counter anti-access and area denial strategies." 48 Krueger, 2011, p. 3;Mullen, 2011d, p. 8;and Scott Boston, Michael S. Chase, and CVE operations and toward future, near-peer, likely Indo-Pacific conflicts. Ultimately, these considerations would influence the 2012 DSG, which would stress a strategic rebalance of U.S. force posture toward the Indo-Pacific theater.…”