Features
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Sharp Edges
Dr. Jake Wallis/Australian Strategic Policy Institute Under an assertive Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is building a global propaganda system designed…
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Exposing CCP Espionage
FORUM Staff A clearly visible high-altitude balloon traversing the continental United States in late January and early February 2023 — before a U.S. fighter jet shot down the surveillance system…
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Stronger Together
FORUM Staff Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Col. Ranulfo A. Sevilla, deputy commander of the Special Operations Command AFP (SOCOM AFP), and his United States counterpart, Lt. Col. Vincent…
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Unified Resolve
FORUM Staff With the practiced steps of a choreographer, Australian Army Col. Ben McLennan traversed northeast Queensland, careful not to crush the enemy at his heels. Striding across an 8-by-16-meter…
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Ocean of Data
FORUM STAFF | PHOTOS BY INTERNATIONAL MONITORING, CONTROL AND SURVEILLANCE NETWORK Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is a global scourge: 1 in 5 fish sold is illegally caught. The…
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Framework For Success
FORUM STAFF When back-to-back cyclones barreled through Vanuatu at 230 kilometers per hour in early March 2023, upending homes and downing power lines, the Pacific family responded swiftly. Even as…
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Japan’s Defense Technology Strategy
Dr. Shigenori Mishima Dr. Shigenori Mishima, vice commissioner and chief technology officer of Japan’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA), delivered this keynote address at the Pacific Operational Science &…
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Transnational Repression
FORUM Staff The People’s Republic of China (PRC) continues to face international criticism for violating the sovereignty of nations across the globe with its “overseas police service stations,” clandestine offices…
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Cobra Gold 2023
Gusty Da Costa More than 500 Thai and United States paratroopers dropped into fields of tall tropical grasses near Fort Thanarat in Prachuap Khiri Khan in western Thailand in early…
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Unifying efforts Against The Military Junta
Lt. Col. (Ret.) Dr. Miemie Winn Byrd/Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies Two years after seizing power in a coup, the Myanmar military is on the verge of…
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