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Discussions 'focused on regional issues of common interest and more opportunities to expand cooperation,' says the AFP

The militaries from the Philippines, United States, Japan, and Australia engaged in their first Joint Service Staff Talks in Tokyo from November 28, Tuesday, to December 1, Friday.

Officials of the Philippines, United States, Japan and Australia gathered in Tokyo to discuss regional issues of common interest and more opportunities to expand cooperation among the four allied partners.

Col. John Lehane, who took command of the 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment at a Thursday morning ceremony at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, has been getting lots of phone calls since taking over the Kaneohe-­based unit.

The 3rd MLR is meant to serve as a blueprint for an ambitious Marine Corps plan to restructure its entire force amid boiling geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China.

The Marine Corps is ready to use its new formation developed for the island-to-island fight of the future in a major joint exercise in the Indo-Pacific for the first time. After conducting a service-level exercise in California and Arizona earlier this year, the Marine Corps will now scale that experimentation to the naval and joint […]

Maj. Gen. Jay Bargeron, commanding general of 3rd Marine Division, told Breaking Defense the recent exercise was an “inflection point” for his command.

In early December 2021, Japan’s Self-Defense Force joined the U.S. armed forces for Resolute Dragon 2022, which the U.S. Marines called the “largest

The exercises, the largest in Japan involving US Marines, were above all aimed at preparing for war against China on Taiwan.

Truck-mounted launchers blasted off rockets and U.S. stealth fighter jets streaked across the northern Philippine sky on Thursday in a combat drill that marked the latest display of American firepower in a region where Washington has tried to deter what it warns as China’s growing aggression. The live-fire exercises at a gunnery and bombing range…