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 ...

One of the first aims of the United States’ new Department of Government Efficiency was shutting down USAID. By 6 February, ...

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN) -- The distance from humanity yawns out in front of you when you stand on the pale sands of this tiny Pacific island ... up in the food chain.

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 ...