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Pacific, Japan is reshaping its defense strategy with unprecedented ambition. This episode dives into the policies and ...
Japan's defence ministry plans to acquire six shipborne small UAVs in fiscal year 2025 as part of a broader strategy to ...
Japan had initially planned the F-35Bs to support amphibious operations, but the initial six jets missed the target March ...
France’s 2022 version of the report mentioned China’s military expansion as a threat to the “status quo” in the Strait, while ...
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Fate of Taiwan and the Philippines intertwined
There is a proposal that Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines should be considered as a single theater of war.
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America needs peace with China — for now
DON’T look now, but the United States and China might just be easing tensions despite Washington’s recent tough talk about ...
UN eyes Red Sea threats, Trump pushes Gaza talks, Russia advances in Ukraine—here's your SOFREP Morning Brief for Wednesday, July 16, 2025.
US' policy of ambiguity towards Taiwan may have worked so far, but with the world order shifting and China sending ominous ...
In the 19th-century Concert of Europe, the great powers – Britain, France, Austria, Prussia and Russia – collectively managed European politics, balancing power to maintain stability. Their influence ...
Recent Kyiv-Tokyo agreements show that the countries' partnership is not a one-time act of support, but a steady formation of a strategic alliance across many sectors.
The world depends on Taiwan’s semiconductors, but Taiwan’s survival must depend on more than just faith in external intervention.
Russia operations and North Korean threats pose the greatest challenge to global order since World War II, in its annual ...