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Rebalancing to Meet Priorities February 2010readiness to ensure an agile and timely response. An uncertain strategicenvironment places a premium on multi‐purpose forces that possess the ability toeasily integrate the efforts of diverse partners. Worldwide operational activitiesinclude drug interdiction, joint maneuvers, multi‐national training exercises, andhumanitarian assistance. Operations may also include contingency operations whencalled upon, such as in the Arabian Gulf, the Balkans, Afghanistan/NorthernArabian Sea (Operation Enduring Freedom), and Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom).DETERRENCEPreventing conflicts is preferable to fighting wars, and deterrence must be viewedglobally, regionally, and transnationally, via conventional, unconventional, andnuclear means. Effective theater security cooperation activities are a form ofextended deterrence, creating security, and removing conditions for conflict.Maritime ballistic missile defense enhances deterrence by providing an umbrella ofprotection to forward‐deployed U. S. forces and partners, while contributing to thelarger architecture planned for defense of the United States.SEA CONTROL AND POWER PROJECTIONThe ability to operate freely at sea is one ofthe most important elements of joint andinteragency operations, and sea controlrequires capabilities in all aspects of themaritime domain, including space andcyberspace. The growing number of nationsoperating submarines is among the mostsignificant challenges to our ability to exercisesea control. We will not permit an adversaryto impede the United States and its allies from freedom to maneuver on the seas andaccess to vital sea‐lines of communication and commerce. The Department’s abilityto overcome challenges to access while simultaneously project and sustain powerashore is the basis of our combat credibility. Our advantages will continue to besustained through properly sized forces, innovative technologies, understanding ofadversary capabilities, adaptive joint planning processes and the proficiency andingenuity of our Sailors and Marines. This budget supports maintaining a robuststrategic sealift capability to rapidly concentrate and sustain forces, and to enablejoint and/or combined campaigns. This capability relies on maintaining a strong U.S. commercial maritime transportation industry and its critical intermodal assets.1‐4 FY 2011 Department of the Navy Budget