It’s time for the United States, Japan, and other security allies in the...

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.
To Chinese strategists, media warfare (and the broader Political Warfare effort of which media...
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~To take fullest advantage of Japan’s Reciprocal Access Agreement with Australia and the...
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