Pacifist No More: Japan Bolsters Its Military Amid Growing Threats
All eyes may be on Ukraine, but the Indo-Pacific remains an area of potential conflict.
I would like tentatively to share the insights of Caleb Larson, who is a multimedia journalist and defense writer with the National Interest. A graduate of UCLA, he also holds a Master of Public Policy and lives in Berlin. He covers the intersection of conflict, security, and technology, focusing on American foreign policy, European security, and German society for both print and radio.
A U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln, is stationed in the Sea of Japan at a particularly fraught time for the Asia-Pacific region. The carrier’s deployment coincides with Kim Il-sung’s 110th birthday..
The United States is also beefing up its presence in other parts of the Pacific. Just recently, the U.S. Navy sent a fifth Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine to the island of Guam, deep in the western Pacific.
