China's fighter fleet, bombers, and missiles give it "high marks" to deny US air superiority in the area, Adm. Paparo said.

The U.S. Marine Corps' Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System, or NMESIS, will conduct simulated fires missions in the Luzon Strait.

BOMBSHELL Google Maps images have exposed China's secret submarine fleet ... Taiwan sits in the so-called "first island chain", which includes a list of US-friendly territories that are crucial ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...