Island Chains: Can the US's Cold War Strategy Still Contain China?
China is expanding its military reach and presence within the three Pacific island chains with the world's largest navy.
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U.S. bolsters 'second island chain' defense with eye on China
WASHINGTON -- On his first trip to the Indo-Pacific as U.S. defense secretary last week, Pete Hegseth embraced America's alliances and reaffirmed its commitment to sustaining robust deterrence in the ...
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No, The First Island Chain Isn’t Lost
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 ...
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Japan retools evacuation plan for western island chain in event of emergency or attack
An updated plan recently released by the Japanese government details how and where it will move 120,000 people from the ...
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What Virus? Military Asks Whopping $20B to ‘Deter Chinese Aggression’
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 ...
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US and Ally Signal Possible Missile Deployment on China's Doorstep
Japan, which has signed a security treaty with the U.S. and hosted American forces, is part of the first island chain, a U.S. defense concept that seeks to leverage allied and friendly territories ...
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Defense officials tout new base on Okinawan island, but residents worry
Japanese officials are touting a new Ground Self-Defense Force base on Ishigaki ... effort by the GSDF to create a bulwark across an island chain that stretches more than 1,000 kilometers from ...