The pact will provide nuclear submarine technology for Australia to ‘improve deterrence across the Indo-Pacific’, says a senior US administration official‘Beijing will see this as part of US efforts to forge coalitions aimed at pushing back against China,’ according to an analyst
Are U.S. Bases in Asia Vulnerable to Chinese Missiles? Very.
For its part, Washington must stop trying to do it all alone and afford allies and friends the deference their interests and contributions warrant.
Here s What You Need to Remember: Beijing can now hope to fend off U.S. reinforcements from coming to the aid of regional allies, to slow them down, or to make the effort so expensive in terms of lives and hardware that no U.S. president would order the attempt.
The University of Sydney’s United States Studies Center (USSC) set policy circles aflutter when it issued a novella-length report that questions the staying power of U.S. military strategy in the Indo-Pacific theater while urging inhabitants of the region to take up their share of the defense burden vis-à-vis a domineering China. Read the whole thing.
There are parallels right now with 1939 that make people uncomfortable.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The United States must remain vigilant and do all it can to check the power of authoritarians before they become dangerous.
Marauding Polish troops were culpable for fourteen military incidents along the Polish-German frontier eighty years ago. The reluctant German government felt compelled to order the army to respond and World War II was on. Or at least that’s what Adolf Hitler would have you believe. That day the Nazi dictator informed the Reichstag, or parliament, that he had “resolved to speak to Poland in the same language” that Poland had used armed force for months before the onset of fighting. “This night,” Hitler claimed, “Polish regular soldiers fired on our territory. Since 5:45 A.M. we have been returning the fire, and from now on bombs will be met by bombs.”