Defense Strategy

The littoral combat ship USS Independence sails in the eastern Pacific. (US Navy photo by Shannon Renfroe)

Taiwanese Navy warships on August 7, 2022, in Keelung, Taiwan. (Annabelle Chih/Getty Images)

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington is underway in the South China Sea, on October 12, 2012. (Jennifer A. Villalovos via DVIDS)

Ukrainian servicemen move toward the front line near Bakhmut, Ukraine, on March 8, 2023. (Sergey Shestak/AFP via Getty Images)

A Ukrainian military member sitting on top of an armored vehicle on a dirt road on February 26, 2023, in Donetsk, Ukraine. (Yan Dobronosov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

A view of the Presidential Office Building in Taipei, which was previously the office of the governor-general of Taiwan during Japanese colonial rule. (Walid Berrazeg/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

US service members participated in a joint electronic warfare training, where Marines and soldiers learned and effectively utilized electronic warfare equipment in smaller sized combat elements to enhance combat lethality. (US Marine Corps photo by Patrick King)

Members of the US Army's 11th Airborne Division and the Indian Army's 71st Mountain Brigade stand at parade rest during a rehearsal prior to the closing ceremony for bilateral training exercise Yudh Abhyas 2022 in Auli, India, on December 2, 2022. (US Army Photo by Christopher Dennis)

A Ukrainian soldier with an assault rifle stands amid wreckage as debris lie in the garage at a trolleybus depot on January 27, 2023, in Bakhmut, Ukraine. (Yan Dobronosov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

A Ukrainian army artillery crew dismounts from a self-propelled 122mm howitzer after firing on a Russian position on February 18, 2023, near Bakhmut, Ukraine. (John Moore/Getty Images)

Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 27. 2023. (President of Ukraine via Flickr)

Participants drill shooting positions at a combat training day hosted by a local paramilitary civil formation called TSEL on February 22, 2023, in Lviv, Ukraine. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)