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  • Global Commons

    Italy, Japan, U.K. step up development of stealth fighter jet

    The Associated Press Defense ministers of Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom agreed to accelerate development of a next-generation fighter jet and establish an organization to work with the aircraft’s manufacturers, officials announced in October 2024. The countries agreed in 2022 to jointly produce a combat aircraft for deployment by 2035 under the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) to strengthen…

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  • Partnerships

    Multinational exercises in Philippines: ‘Partnerships that allow us to maintain peace and stability’

    FORUM Staff Philippine and United States forces, joined by participants from six nations, conducted near-simultaneous military exercises in and around the Philippines in October 2024. Exercise Sama Sama, a Filipino phrase meaning togetherness, expanded in its eighth iteration to include training on shore and in waters off the northern Philippines, building on a legacy of Philippine-U.S. maritime collaboration. Part of…

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  • Features

    Expanding Horizons

    FORUM Staff When 200 or so Mongolian pro-democracy activists converged in Sükhbaatar Square on United Nations Human Rights Day in December 1989, there was little to portend the transformation set to unfold. From the square in the capital Ulaanbaatar, peaceful protests would sweep across the country of steppes and deserts. Within three months, Mongolia’s communist regime relinquished power after nearly…

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  • Features

    Trained, Prepared, Forward

    FORUM Staff A helicopter hovers within arm’s reach of a Soldier astride a howitzer. Dust and rain lash New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) and United States Army personnel under storm-darkened skies and thundering aircraft at Helemano Military Reservation, Hawaii. Sling load training, one facet of the Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center (JPMRC) drills occurring across the archipelago’s eight main islands, demonstrates…

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  • Northeast Asia

    Allies, partners enhance all-domain readiness with military exercises across Indo-Pacific

    FORUM Staff More than 30 allied and partner militaries deployed personnel, aircraft, ships, submarines, uncrewed vehicles and other assets across the Indo-Pacific in mid-2024. The multinational, near-simultaneous exercises Pitch Black, Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) and Valiant Shield stretched from Oceania and the Western Pacific to Northeast Asia. Tens of thousands of troops joined the all-domain training to build interoperability…

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  • Free and Open Indo-Pacific/FOIP

    China’s human rights record draws sharp rebuke at U.N.

    Agence France-Presse The People’s Republic of China (PRC) met stinging criticism in early July 2024 from United Nations member countries and organizations over its human rights record. All 193 U.N. member states must undergo a review every four to five years, followed by a report on the recommendations the country is willing to accept. During the PRC review in January,…

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  • Partnerships

    Senior-level talks highlight Indonesia’s enhanced defense collaboration with U.K., U.S.

    Gusty Da Costa Indonesia is strengthening its defense partnerships with the United Kingdom and the United States, highlighted by recent meetings to bolster military collaboration and security in the Indo-Pacific. Indonesian Defense Minister and President-elect Prabowo Subianto’s talks with Adm. Tony Radakin, U.K. Chief of the Defence Staff, and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin underscored initiatives to enhance strategic ties…

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  • Oceania

    AUKUS partners enhancing joint operations, technology integration

    Tom Abke The armies of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States will be central to operations under Pillar 2 of AUKUS, the nations’ security partnership aimed at bolstering defense capabilities and promoting stability in the Indo-Pacific, military leaders say. Pillar 1 of the trilateral pact focuses on providing Australia with conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarines, while Pillar 2 encompasses…

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  • Features

    Transregional Commitments to the Indo-Pacific

    Forum Staff With deepening power competition, population shifts and growing economies in the Indo-Pacific, global stakeholders are refining, and in many cases expanding, their strategic investments and presence in the region. Many now count a Free and Open Indo-Pacific as vital to their own geopolitical and economic success.  “The vast majority of countries throughout the region have rallied around the…

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  • Northeast Asia

    PLA’s dangerous moves seek to shield North Korea from sanctions enforcement

    FORUM Staff The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) recent “unsafe and unprofessional” intercept of a Royal Australian Navy helicopter highlights a pattern of dangerous maneuvers aimed at sanctions enforcers. Beijing supported United Nations sanctions to deter North Korea’s destabilizing nuclear and weapons programs, but has undermined the international measures by allowing violators to use Chinese infrastructure and territorial waters to…

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