Story by Lori Stewart | U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence | 05.09.2025
On May 17, 1945, 2d Lt. René J. Défourneaux, a French-speaking member of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), completed his infiltration of French colonial refugees at the China-French Indochina border. His ability to blend in with the refugees allowed him to identify those with the greatest potential to provide intelligence about the Japanese in Indochina....
Story by Charlie Maib | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Japan District | 04.02.2025
During a recent visit to Tokyo, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reaffirmed America's commitment to strengthening its military posture in Japan, announcing plans to restructure U.S. Forces Japan into a "war-fighting headquarters" to bolster deterrence in the Indo-Pacific. Standing alongside Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani, Hegseth called Japan an “indispensable partner” in......
Story by Patrick Loch | George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies | 03.31.2025
On March 31, 2025, the Marshall Center hosted Andrew Cainey, a leading expert on China's economic and geopolitical strategies, shaped by decades of experience living, working, and advising in and on China....
Story by Sarah Loicano | George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies | 02.24.2025
In week two of its Countering Transnational Organized Crime, Dr. Vanda Felbab-Brown, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, provided an in-depth analysis of the evolution and expansion of Chinese organized crime to Marshall Center participants....
Courtesy Story | Naval Medical Readiness Logistics Command, Williamsburg, VA | 08.13.2024
Seaman Recruit Lei Wang, from Yantai, Shandong, China, serves the U.S. Navy assigned to Naval Medical Readiness Logistics Command (NMRLC), Williamsburg, Virginia....
Story by Robert Dantzler | Air University Public Affairs | 07.30.2024
The Air Force Wargaming Institute created a new wargame titled, “Air Force Wargame Indo-Pacific.” They incorporated Headquarter Air Force inputs from the Trilateral Strategic Studies Group into a tabletop wargame to provide every Airman across the Air Force with access to an introductory experience that teaches and reinforces the instruments of national power, multi-domain integration and......
Story by Tech. Sgt. Marleah Miller | U.S. Special Operations Command | 02.06.2024
U.S. Special Operations Command hosted NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Feb. 1, during his final stop in the U.S....
Story by Billy Blankenship | Air University Public Affairs | 07.12.2023
Ala.—The China Aerospace Studies Institute hosted four United States Air Force Academy cadets at their National Defense University facility in Washington, D.C., for a summer research program during June and July 2023....