The B-1B bomber deployment in Japan will reinforce stability in the Indo-Pacific region, the U.S. Pacific Air Forces said.

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

He follows that up with the argument that U.S. actions in the Second Island Chain are essentially a tacit ... the sheer scope ...

His focus is on security and defense issues in the Western Pacific region ... (PLAN), which is to control the First Island Chain in the 2000s, the Second Island Chain in the 2020s, and finally ...

WASHINGTON -- On his first trip to the Indo-Pacific as ... another priority for the second Trump administration's Indo-Pacific strategy: bolstering the "second island chain." ...

Eruptions from an undersea volcano have apparently created an islet in the Ogasawara island chain more than 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo in the Pacific Ocean, officials said. The Maritime Self ...

and on a balmy afternoon in January 2022 it began blasting its insides into the sky above this Pacific island chain with a force unmatched in recent history. People thousands of miles away heard ...