Military Exercise and Training
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Partnerships
Philippine Soldiers to train with U.S. personnel on Typhon missile system
FORUM Staff The intermediate-range missile system deployed in 2024 to the Philippines by United States forces is part of a new mission: Philippine Soldiers will train with the Typhon missile system before the longtime allies’ upcoming exercises. The training, which will focus on the Typhon’s advanced capabilities, particularly its cruise missile capacities, will not involve live-fire drills. About 20 Soldiers…
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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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Partnerships
Multinational course bolsters security cooperation among Indonesia, Philippines, U.S., Vietnam
FORUM Staff Coast Guard, law enforcement and fisheries personnel from Indonesia, the Philippines, the United States and Vietnam strengthened cooperation in mid-January 2025 with maritime security training. The U.S. Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs funded the two-week course on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. It included instructors from the Philippine and U.S. Coast Guards, and Vietnam’s…
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Features
Super Garuda Shield 2024
FORUM Staff Concealed in the holds of Indonesian and Singaporean ships off the Java coast, Allied and Partner military forces braced to assault a mock enemy outpost in a field of brush and coconut palms a few hundred meters inland. The troops deployed ashore in amphibious tanks and transport vessels, scrambled across a beach and jogged inland while partly obscured…
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Features
Land Power Key for Multidomain Success
FORUM Staff | Photos by AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE DEPARTMENT Lt. Gen. Simon Stuart assumed command of the Australian Army on July 2, 2022, about 35 years after he enlisted as a Soldier. The Chief of Army sat down for an interview with FORUM on the sidelines of the Land Forces Pacific (LANPAC) conference sponsored by the Association of the United States…
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Features
Stronger Together
FORUM Staff Sri Lanka’s emergence from its economic crisis demonstrates the growing ability of Indo-Pacific partners to collectively accomplish herculean tasks in short order. The Indian Ocean nation was reeling in 2022 with soaring food, medicine and fuel prices, widespread financial uncertainty, and political disarray when France, India, Japan and the United States rallied to its aid. With restructured debt,…
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Features
Timeline of the United States Indo-Pacific Command
RANA LYNN KENNEDY/COMMAND HISTORIAN Since its founding in 1947, the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) has maintained an enduring presence in the region and a consistent strategy for building alliances and partnerships. USINDOPACOM’s response to the region’s changing security landscape over nearly eight decades of commitment reveals how the U.S. and its Allies and Partners have strengthened ties by managing conflicts,…
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Features
Collective Deterrence
Sentry Staff Tensions between strategic competitors, North Korea’s persistent nuclear weapons expansion and Russia’s attempts to shift Europe’s balance of power with its war against Ukraine have contributed to a coalescing among the United States and its Allies and Partners to modernize strategies that more effectively combat 21st century security threats. Geopolitical changes, particularly in the Indo-Pacific and Europe, threaten…
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Across The Region
Cooperation Fortifies Japan, South Korea, U.S. Ties
Japan, South Korea and the United States are strengthening security ties in response to regional threats. The nations pledged to expand the multidomain exercise Freedom Edge to promote defense interoperability and protect regional and global peace in the face of North Korea’s nuclear provocations. In its first iteration in June 2024, the trilateral exercise mobilized personnel, ships and aircraft for…
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Indo-Pacific View
Dear Readers, Welcome to the 50th anniversary edition of Indo-Pacific Defense FORUM. For five decades, FORUM has chronicled the evolution of military, political and socioeconomic forces transforming the regional and global security environment. During this half-century, the United States, its Allies and Partners have expanded and strengthened their relationships under the shared belief that we are never stronger than we…
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