By bno - Taipei Office For much of the post-war era, Japan’s armed forces - officially termed the Self-Defence Forces (SDF) - ...

Japan isn’t allowed to have aircraft carriers—so they built them anyway. Disguised as “helicopter destroyers,” the Izumo-class ships reveal a clever workaround of constitutional limits, global ...

Japan's defence ministry plans to acquire six shipborne small UAVs in fiscal year 2025 as part of a broader strategy to ...

Japan had initially planned the F-35Bs to support amphibious operations, but the initial six jets missed the target March ...

The Asia-Indo-Pacific is no longer a distant geopolitical theater. It is the central arena of strategic competition, ...

U.S. calls for clearer commitments on Taiwan underscore the growing pressure on the Quad, as the Taiwan issue increasingly ...

There is a proposal that Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines should be considered as a single theater of war.

France’s 2022 version of the report mentioned China’s military expansion as a threat to the “status quo” in the Strait, while ...

Elbridge Colby’s memo highlighting U.S. weapons shortages influenced the decision to pause some arms shipments to Ukraine.

The rest of the North Korean navy consists of ten elderly frigates and corvettes. Another one of these was converted into a mine sweeper. The remainder of the fleet consists of about a hundred patrol ...

In doggedly resisting US prompts to boost defence spending by evoking a ‘neutralist’ foreign policy in his recent John Curtin ...

US' policy of ambiguity towards Taiwan may have worked so far, but with the world order shifting and China sending ominous ...