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China Could Attack Pearl Harbor—and the West Coast

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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Philippine Gov’t is Alarmed by Claims of Chinese Sovereignty Over Palawan

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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‘Tradition isn’t working’: Navy’s ineffective management adds to construction delays of new ships

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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