Japanese strategy

‘New era of crisis’ prompts Japan’ biggest defense budget ever: $59B for 2025

Japan seeks to buy another 11 F-35 joint strike fighters, develop a new military small satellite constellation and invest in new signals intelligence aircraft.

By Colin Clark

Global

‘Breakthrough’ Japan strategy eyes China threat, drives huge defense changes

"This appears to be a breakthrough moment, placing China more explicitly and centrally in the rationale for an unprecedented military expansion of post-war Japan," said John Blaxland, professor at Australian National University's Strategic and Defense Studies Center.

By Colin Clark

Air Warfare

Putin Rebuilds Russia’s Military While US Strategy Is All Over Map

In his 1940 book, The New World Order, H.G. Wells wrote, “I think that in the decades before 1914 not only I but most of my generation – in the British Empire, America, France, and indeed throughout most of the civilized world – thought that war was dying out.” That assertion now seems naïve, even childish. […]

By Doug Macgregor

Threats

Japan Re-Shapes Its National Security Strategy

Japanese national security strategy is shifting. The Pacific power’s new National Security Strategy highlights a comprehensive look ahead built around what they call a “comprehensive defense architecture.” This architecture is built on effective joint forces, a close working relationship with key allies such as the United States, Australia and Japan, and a proactive approach in which […]

By Robbin Laird

Threats

Hagel Offers China, North Korea Clear Guidance: Japan Is US Ally So Back Off

By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake The Chinese, who have been shoving their neighbors around with considerable panache over the last year, upped the ante yesterday with a claim in the official People’s Daily — not yet disavowed by the government — that the PRC may have a claim to Okinawa and others of the […]

By Colin Clark

Threats

How To Handle North Korea: Building 21st Century Deterrent Capabilities

I had the privilege to study and work with Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski as a student and for my first research job. With Brzezinski, one is always pushed towards the “Zbig” picture. It was no different when I recently visited Brzezinski in his office and we settled down to discuss the current Korean crisis and the […]

By Robbin Laird