President Bush responded to his critics today with a speech at the US Naval Academy.

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Tour the US Naval Academy or St John's College, the country's third oldest institution of its kind.

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Robert Kaplan, who teaches at the US Naval Academy, tells the programme that China's focussed military spending is aimed at constraining American warships off China's coastal waters.

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The president was speaking at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, working to persuade Americans that he has a plan to win the war in Iraq.

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Born in 1953 in the southern state of Virginia, Gen Allen graduated with military honours from the US Naval Academy in 1976, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Operations Analysis.

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The Dean of Admissions at the US Naval Academy is Mr. Bruce Latta, who in the following video graciously takes us behind the scenes at the academy, and inside the admissions process.

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