WAIKIKI, Hawaii—Having the “right stuff at the right place at the right time” in the Pacific theater is “a little bit of a maths problem,” says U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s strategy director for logistics and engineering. “Hawaii is 3,000 ...

Decommissioned amphibious transport dock USS Juneau (LPD-10) was sunk by the U.S. and partner nations on Saturday in the Philippine Sea during the ongoing Valiant Shield 2026 exercise. Juneau was sunk more than 200 nautical miles off the coast in the Mariana Islands Range Complex during a sinking exercise that brought together air,

As the strategic rivalry between China and the United States intensifies across the Indo-Pacific, the Taiwan Strait is often seen as the key flash point. Yet whether the regional balance holds or tips into conflict will also be shaped by choices made in ...

Asia Is Racing to the Arctic, But It’s Not Easy “If the United States is serious about a stable and resilient Indo-Pacific, it must act to strengthen its economic relationships” with the Pacific Islands, argues U.S. Rep. Ed Case. The war in Iran ...

Last year was a coming-out party for Chinese military power, from the lethal performance of Chinese-made weapons during the India-Pakistan clash in May, to the high-profile rollout of new nuclear and conventional capabilities at President Xi Jinping’s ...

Corvettes RFS Sovershenny (333) and RFS Rezkiy (343) and fleet oiler Pechenga were spotted Feb. 16, 2026, near Japan after recently departed for an Asia-Pacific deployed. Japan Joint Staff Office photo A surface action group from the Russian Navy’s ...

Well over six months into Trump’s second term, his approach to the Indo-Pacific is showing concerning signs of strategic deficiencies. Two of the most common buzzwords that are associated with U.S. President Donald Trump’s approach to foreign policy ...