Second, the development of Second Island Chain basing enables improved distributed ... would also force the Chinese forces to distribute defenses more broadly if they were to adequately protect ...

particularly land-based anti-ship and anti-air capabilities along the First Island Chain; integrated air missile defense in the Second Island Chain; and an enhanced force posture that provides for ...

(Hat tip: Inside Defense.) “Over the course of the last ... and increasingly in the Caribbean archipelago—a potential offensive island chain.” And such a move would make sense through ...

The Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Hachinohe Air Base ... “Valiant Shield is usually carried out near the second island chain. But what was remarkable about the exercises this time was that ...