In Brandon Weichert’s recent article in this publication, he argues that the United States has potentially “already lost the ...

The First Island Chain is formed by three key American allies and partners facing China to the west: Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines. The second chain stretches from Japan to the island of New ...

1 PLAN or CCG officers are undoubtedly sincere in their desire to keep the Americans out of the first island chain. But that is not the primary reason China has advanced its maritime claims. If it was ...

These flights represent the fact that China is accelerating its military activities on the east side of the First Island Chain, which it considers to be its defense line against the U.S. military ...

And if China does decide to attack ... Taiwan sits in the so-called "first island chain", which includes a list of US-friendly territories that are crucial to Washington's foreign policy in ...

An updated plan recently released by the Japanese government details how and where it will move 120,000 people from the country’s long chain of westernmost islands in the event of a military attack or ...

Chinese forces staged war games to simulate seizing full control of areas west of the so-called first island chain and conducted live-fire missile exercises. China considers democratically ...

The U.S. has conducted operations with Japan and the Philippines in the contested South China Sea, which is located within the First Island Chain. It has also deployed a ground-based missile ...