TOKYO – One of the largest-ever joint training exercises between U.S. and Japanese troops is underway in and around the …
China
A Modest Proposal for Defending Japan’s Remote Islands
“A More Hopeful Future for North Korea”?
North Korea remains a bleak place, and Melanie Kirkpatrick’s new book, Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia’s Underground Railroad, helps explain why. A nuclear-armed family communist dictatorship – who knew the …
Big U.S. Fleet Nears Disputed Islands, But What For?
History Threatens Repeat in Renewed Pacific War
Disputes over islands in Asia reflect a wider failure to reconcile differences among nations stemming from historical conflicts
What Crisis? U.S. Marines and Japanese Troops Train For War
APRA HARBOR, GUAM – Slipping off a warship in small raiding boats, some 60 Japanese soldiers and U.S. Marines came quietly ashore on an isolated beach here this weekend, looking to catch an unnamed enemy unawares. It was part …
Panetta’s China
Trainer Aircraft…With Training Wheels
It was one of the saddest stories Battleland ever did: reporting on the three cadets at the Air Force Academy who died, along with their instructors, in a trio of separate crashes of the T-3 Firefly trainer aircraft from 1995 to …
Japan Frets over U.S. Support in China Dispute
TOKYO – When the U.S. Defense Secretary arrives in Asia this weekend, his biggest challenge may not be convincing China that America will give its full support to longtime ally Japan in the escalating dispute over islands …
Japan To South Korea: Lay Off The Emperor
TOKYO –It’s not clear if South Korean President Lee Myung-bak intended to infuriate Japan, worsen a couple of territorial disputes and complicate U.S. security plans in Asia by picking on a kindly, 78-year-old emperor. But he …
The Country Whose Name Dare Not Be Spoken
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta spoke to the sailors of the carrier USS John C. Stennis on Wednesday in Bremerton, Wash. He lauded their their service, but warned of the threats still out there:
We have threats of nuclear
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War’s Legacy Plagues Japan and Its Neighbors
Resentment stemming from World War II resurfaces as Asian neighbors dispute over island territories
AirSea Battle: The Military-Industrial Complex’s Self-Serving Fantasy
Nice Washington Post piece (by Greg Jaffe, of course) on the great COIN counterattack that is the Pentagon’s AirSea Battle.
As scenario work goes, what the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Analysis has done in its war-games …