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Features
Prevailing Over Health and Humanitarian Challenges
Celebrating 50 Years of FORUM Dr. Sebastian Kevany. Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies To provide more effective responses to 21st century challenges in the Indo-Pacific — such as those involving health, climate, economics, cyber and maritime security — defense departments and other government agencies have knocked down silos. Branches of government look to constantly innovate and aim…
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Features
Cultivating Success
SPENCER PETERSEN/U.S. DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Active wars and regional conflicts. Mounting tensions in the South China Sea. Reverberations from a pandemic. Competition between the world’s two largest economies. Record refugee and migrant flows. The complex and emerging security challenges facing the Indo-Pacific and the world require novel solutions, especially in an age of artificial intelligence (AI). Intelligence diplomacy may be…
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Partnerships
Tiger Triumph 2025 advances capabilities of Indian, U.S. forces
Lt. Cmdr. Seth Koenig/U.S. Navy A large-scale amphibious landing drill highlighted the accomplishments of exercise Tiger Triumph 2025, a two-week engagement by Indian and United States forces in India in April. As personnel secured a beachhead, an aerial support team relayed observations and other data to ground forces at Kakinada Beach in the southeastern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. About…
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Partnerships
Indian, Sri Lankan leaders sign defense, energy pacts
The Associated Press India and Sri Lanka reached defense and energy agreements in April 2025 as New Delhi seeks to consolidate its influence in the island nation. India is concerned about China’s increasing presence in Sri Lanka, which is on one of the world’s busiest shipping routes in what India considers part of its strategic backyard. Beijing has provided Sri…
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Conflicts - Tensions
India’s Opportunity at Myanmar’s Crossroads
Dr. Miemie Winn Byrd Myanmar stands at a critical crossroads, facing an escalating internal crisis and mounting geopolitical pressures, notably from China’s intensified support for the military junta that seized power from the democratically elected government more than four years ago. Beijing’s backing has sparked widespread anger by sustaining a regime unlikely ever to achieve legitimacy or stability, directly opposing…
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Free and Open Indo-Pacific/FOIP
India boosts naval fleet as China’s regional shadow looms
Mandeep Singh India’s expanding naval fleet is upholding security and stability across the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), a vital corridor for global shipping, officials and analysts say. With the recent commissioning of three domestically built vessels — and with about 60 large vessels under construction — the maritime forces of the world’s most populous country are a key counterweight to…
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Global Commons
Aero India 2025 showcases India-U.S. ties, Indo-Pacific security
Sentry Contributor Aero India, one of the Indo-Pacific’s largest aerospace exhibitions, commenced in February 2025 against a backdrop of heightened security concerns in the Indo-Pacific. The event highlighted the push for enhanced defense manufacturing and exports. “Aero India 2025 is an ideal forum to showcase U.S. defense aircraft and equipment and ultimately contribute toward our compatibility and interoperability with other…
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Partnerships
Multilateral La Perouse 25 exercise focuses on key maritime passages
FORUM Staff Protecting choke points that link the Indian Ocean to the Java Sea, South China Sea and Pacific Ocean was the mission of the La Perouse 25 exercise. Nine Indo-Pacific navies participated in the biennial exercise in January, the fifth and largest iteration. About one-third of the world’s commercial shipping traverses the Lombok, Malacca and Sunda straits, and the…
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Contemplations
Aquafarming Now Main Global Source for Fish, U.N. Food Agency Says
REUTERS | Photos by AFP/Getty Images For the first time, farmed aquatic production has exceeded the catch from traditional fisheries, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in mid-2024, underscoring hopes that aquaculture can meet growing global demand for seafood. In its latest biennial report on the state of world fisheries, the Rome-based FAO said global fisheries and…
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Across The Region
India, U.S. Vow to Boost Defense, Trade Ties
India and the United States have pledged to boost defense and technology cooperation and remove long-standing barriers to bilateral strategic trade. Then-U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and his counterpart, Ajit Doval, met in New Delhi in June 2024 to discuss progress on the Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies, which the two countries launched in 2022. The initiative sets…
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