March 11, 2025 | By David Vergun, DOD News |
U.S. shipbuilders continue to produce the highest quality, safest and most advanced warships on the planet, said Brett A. Seidle, deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development, and acquisition, who testified today at a House Armed Services Committee’s seapower and projection forces subcommittee hearing on the state of U.S. shipbuilding.
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If China invaded or even merely blockaded Taiwan, would President Donald Trump deploy the U.S. military to defend the island democracy?
Given his “America First” rhetoric and a foreign policy outlook often caricatured as isolationist, many assume the answer would be no. However, such assumptions misunderstand the strategic logic underlying his approach to Taiwan and the wider Indo-Pacific.
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By Lieutenant Colonel Thomas McCabe, U.S. Air Force Reserve (Ret.)
Before 1940, Pearl Harbor had been something of a forward base. This started to change as events drifted toward war with Japan. The United States began to build up its forces in the Philippines, then a U.S. dependency, and it implicitly made two assumptions. The first assumption was that if war came, it would primarily be in the western Pacific. Second, Hawaii was now a rear area and therefore secure. On 7 December 1941, the Japanese Navy showed these assumptions were wrong.
Could the United States be making a similar miscalculation today?
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The Philippine government is used to provocative statements from China’s state-owned media empire, but has expressed alarm at a new theory circulating on tightly-monitored Chinese social media: the newly-created concept that Palawan, one of the Philippines’ home islands, is actually part of China.
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By Caitlyn Burchett Stars and Stripes | February 28, 2025
WASHINGTON — The Navy’s approach to managing the shipbuilding industry is ineffective as ships face lengthy construction delays, according to a new federal watchdog report.
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