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 ...

China is expanding its military reach and presence within the three Pacific island chains with the world's largest navy.

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 ...