Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, Russia and North Korea – ramp up military activities in the region, the country’s defense minister said Tuesday.
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Bogged down by shipbuilding struggles and maintenance woes, the US Navy faces an uphill battle to get its fleet ready for the next high-end conflict, which could be against China and its rapidly modernizing military.
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TOKYO (AP) – Japan raised strong caution against China’s rapid acceleration of military activity in extensive areas from its southwestern coasts to the Pacific, describing the moves as the biggest strategic challenge.
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According to information published by the U.S. Space Command on July 8, 2025, the U.S. National Space Defense Center (NSDC), in coordination with the U.S. Navy, successfully conducted the third At-Sea Demonstration (ASD-3) between April 6 and 9, 2025. The exercise featured the U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Pinckney and marked a significant leap in joint naval-space operations, particularly in the fields of Space Domain Awareness (SDA) and Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD).
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As a former Strategic War Planner for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, student at the United States Army War College, and Professor of Strategy at the National War College, I spent my formative years on active duty reading and analyzing both the theory and practice of some of the world’s theorists and practitioners of the art of warfare. Among them were Sun Tzu the great Chinese general and strategist whose seminal work “The Art of War” has endured from its inception 600 BC until today and Carl Von Clausewitz a Prussian general and military theorist who stressed the psychological and political aspects of waging war in his “On War” in which contains his maxim “war is the continuation of politics by other means.”
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In the shadows of Cold War tensions, beneath the surface of the Sea of Japan, a little-known but significant event unfolded in August 1957 that marked a turning point in submarine espionage and international maritime confrontations. The USS Gudgeon (SS-567), a U.S. Navy submarine, became the first American submarine forced to surface by a foreign power during the Cold War—a moment that revealed the fragility of Cold War boundaries and the stakes of underwater intelligence gathering.
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