The US Navy has begun to deploy more forces in the Pacific.
From Beijing's point of view, there was a message for Washington, too: As China rapidly builds its maritime power and the United States begins to deploy more of its naval and air assets back to the Pacific Ocean as part of its new focus on Asia, China will not stand alone.
On 20 May, the recently formed Home Guard battalions began to deploy into the Adriatic Command area.
The Swedes began to deploy inshore flotillas of shallow-draft vessels, beginning with smaller versions of the traditional Mediterranean galleys.
China has invested heavily in military modernization and has begun to deploy long-range aircraft and a more able deep-sea naval force, and it has asserted territorial claims to disputed islands that would give it broad sway over oil and gas rights in the East and South China Seas.
"With so many cable customers now able to access both video and data programming, cable operators must begin to deploy techniques such as in-band data insertion to deliver information more efficiently.
Iran would need more than 100,000 of the older IR-1 centrifuges that are the current backbone of its enrichment programme, or about 20,000 of the more efficient IR-2m centrifuges it has recently begun to deploy.
Now, carriers are beginning to squeeze more and better services out of their second-generation networks while also beginning to deploy the vaunted third-generation systems.
Over the longer term, as companies begin to deploy computers like IBM's Watson that can teach themselves and learn on their own, technology might pose more of a threat.
In Virginia, Last Mile Broadband LLC has begun to deploy an advanced wireless LTE technology to serve portions of Hanover County, just north of Goochland, that it says is faster and more reliable than current wireless technology.
