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Indo-Pacific Command


Defense Secretary Mark Esper is greeted by Indo-Pacific Commander, Adm. Philip Davidson in Hawaii. WASHINGTON: Defense Secretary Mark Esper walked a delicate line today in London, seeking to balance President Trump’s desire to withdraw US forces overseas, a strong commitment to allies like South Korea and Taiwan, and an offer to visit China even as …

Gen. Charles Brown WASHINGTON: Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Brown’s Pacific theater experience will be critical to the service and to OSD as the Pentagon shifts its focus from Russia to China as the peer adversary of the future, observers say. “It sends a message that the threat is China,” one insider said, …