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.

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

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.

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 ...

A U.S. Defense Department report last year said ... They also hoped to push U.S. forces from the “second island chain” spanning the U.S. territory of Guam to the Pacific islands, which count ...

“We are the center of gravity here. We are the second island chain of defense,” she said. “We want to be a partner in the readiness effort but national security cannot happen without human health ...