CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Coincidentally, this is defense week for the Bush administration. President Bush heads to Norfolk, Virginia and to the headquarters of the Joint Forces Command, the only NATO base on U.S. soil. CNN's John King is at the White House this morning with more on his visit -- John.</s>JOHN KING, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol -- this day two of the new president's focus on his agenda for the United States military. As you mentioned, the Joint Forces Command the only NATO facility on U.S. soil -- and while there, the president will take part in a battle simulation. He will sit in the control room and watch a battle simulation take place. There will be U.S. Naval officers as well as NATO officers on a ship off the Virginia shore taking part in that exercise as well -- the president wanting to go to Norfolk and look at this high-tech simulation to explain why he has ordered a top-to- bottom spending review at the Pentagon. We are in a tight budget situation, the president will say, and as he tries to invest in new technology for the military, the administration making clear not only to the generals and the admirals, but also to the Congress, that they plan on cutting back or eliminating some programs they believe are now outdated -- some weapon systems that have considerable support in the Congress. Today, we're also told look for the president to explain once again why he thinks the United States should invest billions of dollars in a national defense system. That is a system opposed vehemently by the Russians and the Chinese and also opposed by many of the U.S. allies in Europe -- and, of course, some of those allies represented in the NATO exercises he will participate in today. So again, the president making the case for his short-term military agenda: yesterday, talking about raising pay and health benefits for the military; today, a much more long-term strategic view on technology and his very controversial missile defense plan -- Carol.</s>LIN: John King at the White House.
President Bush Presses on with Defense Agenda