FILE - This Sept. 22, 1942 black-and-white file photo shows Aviatrix Nancy Harkness Love, director of the Women's Auxiliary Ferry Squadron (WAFS), and Col. Robert H. Baker, commanding officer, inspect the first contingent of women pilots in the WAFS at the New Castle Army Air Base, Del. Women served and died on the nation’s battlefields from the first. They were nurses and cooks, spies and couriers in the Revolutionary War. Some disguised themselves as men to fight for the Union or the Confederacy. Yet the U.S. military’s official acceptance of women in combat took more than two centuries. New roles for females were doled out fitfully _ whenever commanders got in a bind and realized they needed women’s help. A look at milestones on the way to lifting the ban on women in ground combat. (AP Photo, File)
US will be out of Pacific by 2033: report
Published: 02:49:15 AM, Fri 15 February 2013 UTC
A high-ranking Chinese military officer says the US will be forced out of the western Pacific within two decades, according to a report.
Fairfax Media reported on Saturday that Colonel Liu Mingfu, at the People's Liberation Army's National Defence University, predicted that American strategic influence would be confined "east of the Pacific midline" as China's role as a power centre in east Asia grows.
His comments clash with those of university colleague General Zhu Chengdu, who told a conference in Atlanta earlier this week that China had "no intention of driving the US out of east Asia or the western Pacific".
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