Asia Pacific

For more than half a century, one of the United States’ grand strategic missions has been to inhibit the proliferation of nuclear weapons. This strategic mission has been successful to...

The Pacific Ocean, the largest body of water in the world, is known for its vastness, but it might seem a little more crowded soon. The head of the British...

As the debate intensifies on U.S. policy related to the defense of Taiwan, it is useful to examine when and why the United States would carry out such a mission...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Could America have done more with the Pearl Harbor survivors in the first year of the war? Perhaps, but forcing an engagement was a struggle...

Most observers see the rule of President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as firmly entrenched in Beijing, and that the rise of China under their control is...

Here’s What to Remember: We can only hope that the revolutionary technologies of tomorrow will be affordable with what’s left in the kitty. We’ve known for a while that SEA 1000,...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The People’s Liberation Army Navy has deployed its aircraft carrier Liaoning near Taiwan’s coastal waters while Taiwan’s Defense Ministry has reported multiple incursions by China’s Air Force, the latest...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: “We warn those ‘Taiwan independence’ elements: those who play with fire will burn themselves,” Chinese Defence Ministry spokesman Wu Qian said in January. “Taiwan ‘independence’ means war,”...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Hōshō’s had been used in the attack on Pearl Harbor and was present at the Battle of Midway in a secondary role. At the end...

Chinese bombers are dropping bombs, conducting live-fire exercises, and laying mines over areas of the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait in a clear effort to show force and attempt to...

DF-26B ballistic missiles split the sky with their hypersonic screams. Guam Killers rained down and Andersen Air Force Base burned. Greasy, black smoke, illuminated by bright flashes of primary detonations,...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The U.S. Navy, it seems, is optimized for the blue-water conflagration that’s least likely to occur. Question marks surround who would prevail in the scenarios...