Marine Corps eyes future stability of Indo-Pacific with Balikatan 2025
This year's exercise marks 40 years of joint drills aimed at strengthening the U.S. and Philippines' defense capabilities in the Indo-Pacific.
By Riley Ceder
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Pentagon chief to visit Philippines for security talks, envoy says
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is scheduled to visit the Philippines, the first stop in his first trip to the Indo-Pacific next week.
China demonstrated ‘satellite dogfighting,’ Space Force general says
A Space Force spokesperson said the demonstration occurred in 2024 and involved five Chinese satellites.
Opinion
Tiltrotor will bring the Army off the bench in the Indo-Pacific
The author of this op-ed argues the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft gives the Army a quantum leap in capability necessary to win a war in the Pacific.
By Maj. Gen. Rudolph “Rudy” Ostovich (ret.)
The tiny Japanese island militarizing on Taiwan’s doorstep
A tiny island on Japan’s western frontier is now the front line in a potential clash over Taiwan.
The Army’s permafrost test bed in Alaska set for significant upgrade
The Army's research facility includes a permafrost tunnel — about a third of a mile long — that has Ice Age-era animal bones jutting out from the walls.
By Hope Hodge Seck