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 ...

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 ...

Someone will work here in the morning and then go to a competitor for the second ... Long Island and the skilled labor it needs to be sustained. John Spiezio, chairman of Aerospace & Defense ...

Eastern Theater Command organized the "Strait Thunder-2025A" exercises in the central and southern areas of the Taiwan Straits on Wednesday. In recent years, the PLA exercises in the Taiwan Straits ...

China conducted military drills around Taiwan for a second day Wednesday, focusing on the Taiwan Strait — a crucial conduit for international trade separating the ...

future PLAN strike task forces outside the second island chain will likely be based on teamed carrier group-destroyer strike and air defense ships, with multiple frigates conducting anti-surface ...

Not only is Chairman Xi Jinping constantly pushing the People's Liberation Army (PLA) towards devotee levels of loyalty to ...

Will he say that Guam and the Micronesian region are the second island chain defense line? Then he will have to explain how the Philippines and most of Japan, including Okinawa, fit into that.

Cutting cables near strategic chokepoints such as Guam, which is a linchpin of the US military's Second Island Chain, a defense strategy used to contain China, the tool could essentially ...