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    Allies and Partners invest in, collaborate on missile defense systems

    FORUM Staff Expanding nuclear and nonnuclear missile arsenals across the Indo-Pacific contribute to security dilemmas throughout the region. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) relies on growing capabilities — including intercontinental and inter-regional ballistic missiles along with medium- and short-range ballistic weapons — to assert expansive sovereignty claims. Meanwhile, a provocative North Korea persists with its United Nations-banned weapons programs,…

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    U.S. Bomber Task Force missions demonstrate credible military capabilities to preserve peace in the Indo-Pacific

    U.S. Strategic Command Bomber Task Force (BTF) missions demonstrate the United States’ capability to efficiently oversee its bomber forces for all assigned missions anywhere in the world at any time, often integrating and training with Allies and Partners throughout the region. In 2023, BTF missions routinely and visibly demonstrated that together Allies and Partners are stronger and more effective at…

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    U.S. Air Force B-52s help forge key Indo-Pacific partnerships

    U.S. Pacific Air Forces The United States Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) conducted more than 30 sorties during a recent Bomber Task Force deployment to the Indo-Pacific. More than 215 Airmen from PACAF’s area of responsibility and four B-52H Stratofortress aircraft from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, conducted the first trilateral integration with Japanese and Republic of Korea (ROK) forces. A…

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    Guam cyber resilience event launches whole-of-government effort to protect critical infrastructure

    FORUM Staff In the wake of a multinational, multi-agency disclosure that malicious computer code was discovered in telecommunications systems serving Guam and other strategic United States locations, cybersecurity experts are working to bolster resilience in the U.S. territory and beyond. The malware is linked to a group of Chinese Communist Party-backed cyber criminals dubbed Volt Typhoon by U.S. tech company…

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  • Partnerships

    Inaugural cyber defense drill builds partnerships, capabilities at Balikatan

    FORUM Staff Exercise Balikatan 2023, the 38th iteration of the annual training between the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the United States military, featured an inaugural joint cyber defense exercise (CYDEX) in April 2023. Combined teams of Philippine and U.S. cyber defense experts at Camp Aguinaldo outside Manila, along with Philippine law enforcement personnel, trained on a U.S.…

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  • Oceania

    U.S. strengthens military presence on Guam, Tinian

    Tom Abke The United States is bolstering its defense capabilities in the Mariana Islands, including Guam, in the face of missile threats from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and to fulfill its commitment to Indo-Pacific allies and partners. Efforts include military exercises and the planned build-up of military assets in the archipelago. “The growing PLA long-range strike capabilities, especially its…

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  • Key Issues

    Cope North 2023 hones strategic combat skills, coordination among Pacific partners

    FORUM Staff Allies and partners in the Pacific launched exercise Cope North 2023 in February, bolstering their capacity for airborne force coordination, agile combat and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR). The exercise, sponsored by United States Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), brought together about 2,000 members of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), French Air and Space Force, Japan Air…

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  • Global CommonsKimura Jiro, parliamentary vice minister of defense for Japan

    Partnership, preservation, protection: Camp Blaz epitomizes U.S. commitment in Guam, alliance with Japan

    FORUM Staff Steeped in history and fortified by Indo-Pacific partnerships, United States Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz on Guam’s northern plateau will play a crucial role in regional security and collective defense, U.S. military leaders and regional allies said during a January 2023 reactivation and naming ceremony for the base. “Forward, persistent presence is key to the regional security and…

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    U.S. Air Force B-1Bs complete lndo-Pacific Bomber Task Force mission

    FORUM Staff The United States Air Force deployed four B-1B Lancers to conduct Bomber Task Force (BTF) missions with allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region from October 17 to November 20, 2022. The bombers, which are assigned to the 37th Bomb Squadron, 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, flew to Andersen Air Force Base in…

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    U.S. Coast Guard medevacs injured fisherman to Micronesia

    FORUM Staff The 31-year-old Vietnamese fisherman couldn’t feel his legs or his right arm when a team from U.S. Coast Guard cutter Frederick Hatch reached him in November 2022. He had head injuries from a 3.5-meter fall and, by then, the fishing boat was more than 300 kilometers off the coast of Pohnpei, in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM).…

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