U.S. and Philippine Forces Defend Island Chain Near Taiwan in ...

U.S. and Philippine Forces Defend Island Chain Near Taiwan in Balikatan 2024 Exercise ... U.S. and Philippine forces tested their ability to ...

Japan and the Philippines Increase Their Focus on Island Defense

A U.S. Army UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter flies over Batanes islands towards Itbayat, the Philippines' northernmost town, during a joint military ...

US and Ally To Deploy More Forces to Strategic Islands Near China

The islands, or the Ryukyu Islands, are part of a defense concept known as the first island chain, which extends southward from Japan to Taiwan ...

The Philippine Defense Strategic Opportunity: Enabling Allied and ...

As China expands its reach in the first island chain and aggressively goes after Philippine naval assets and contested territory, ...

The Philippines As The Thorn In China's Side | MEMRI

Without the Philippine base access, the U.S. could only deploy air and sea vessels from faraway Hawaii, Guam, or Okinawa. Now it can do so on a ...

Island chain strategy - Wikipedia

The island chain strategy is a strategic maritime containment plan first conceived by American foreign policy statesman John Foster Dulles in 1951, ...

US, Philippines expand exercise to territorial edges amid tension ...

The incident, which took place April 30 during the Balikatan exercise with American and Philippine armed forces, is just one example of what has ...

Marine Corps' Force Design Is Focused on Pacing Challenge From ...

The first island chain includes Japan, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Australia. Force design includes making Marines more mobile and ...

America's New Island Fighters Are Preparing for Conflict—a Stone's ...

ITBAYAT, Philippines—The U.S. and Philippine marines arrived in waves on this little island nearly 100 miles from the southern tip of Taiwan. A ...

There and Back and There Again: U.S. Military Bases in the ...

The destroyer USS Dewey (DDG-105) steams in formation with the Philippine Navy offshore patrol vessel Gregorio del Pilar during a bilateral sail in the South ...

Complexities of Philippine Security Decision-Making on a Taiwan ...

The Philippine defense establishment maintains that it does not pursue official military engagements with Taiwan in view of its One-China Policy ...

U.S. Military Support for Taiwan in Five Charts

China considers the self-ruled island of twenty-four million people a breakaway territory that must be brought under its control, by force if ...

Taiwan's Role in the US-Japan-Philippines Alliance

Taiwan is at the core location of the first island chain. When the United States strengthens military cooperation with Japan and the Philippines ...

EDITORIAL: An Asian 'first island chain NATO' - Taipei Times

Japan and the Philippines on Monday signed a defense agreement that would facilitate joint drills between them. The pact was made “as both ...

Even 100 'island chains' won't make 'Taiwan independence' forces ...

The "first island chain" is the first marine defense line for the US to contain China militarily. ... Taiwan island and the Philippines under the ...

Philippines fortifying a Taiwan front line against China - Asia Times

Earlier this month, Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro visited a naval detachment in Mavulis, situated only 88 miles from the ...

China is testing the limits of U.S.-Philippines defense pact - CNBC

Last week, the Chinese coast guard seized two Filipino ships on a resupply mission to an outpost on the Second Thomas Shoal in the Spratly ...

Defending an Achilles' Heel Evolving Warfare in the Philippines ...

... Philippine Islands, October 20, 1944 (U.S. Army Signal Corps/Wienke) ... U.S. naval and aerial supremacy in the first island chain. The ...

The Philippines' evolving view on Taiwan: From passivity to active ...

The first time that cross-Strait issues became a concern in the Philippine-U.S. alliance was in March 1996 when China fired several unarmed ...

How Southeast Asia Might React in a Potential Military Conflict Over ...

The United States can use those bases for the purposes of training, refueling, deployment, and other activities agreed on by both sides. In ...