South Korea and Japan are working together on North Korea with the US, and...

Grant Newsham
Grant Newsham is a retired United States Marine Officer and a former U.S. diplomat with many years’ experience in Japan. He is a Senior Fellow with both the Center for Security Policy and the Yorktown Institute in the United States, and a Senior Fellow at the Japan Forum for Strategic Studies in Japan. He was the first US Marine liaison officer to the Japan Ground Self Defense force and was instrumental in promoting the JSDF’s initial moves towards an amphibious capability.
Dialogue and diplomacy are not the same thing. America and its allies need to...
Passing up these agreements would squander Great Power relations dating to WWII and put...
US officials keep asking China for mil-to-mil communications. But the Chinese military knows, if...
After Antony Blinken's trip, the PRC just might smell confusion and think the US...
The importance of Okinawa is about deterrence. Demonstrate you're a serious military with lots...
The failure of the US Marine Corps to respond to recent crises is inexcusable....
Retired US Marine Colonel Grant Newsham takes on key questions about Japan's national defense:...
The Taiwan military has languished in isolation for 40 years. Increased interaction with US...
Chinese espionage has been so successful because the United States allowed it to fester....
Do you think we'd have heard about the Chinese spy balloon over the US...
The more the US Marines and Japan Self-Defense Force are a "single force," the...