Girding for Confrontation
The Pentagon’s provocative encirclement of China
WIB politics June 20, 2018 Michael Klare
On May 30, 2018, Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced a momentous shift in American global strategic policy. From now on, he decreed, the U.S. Pacific Command. which oversees all U.S. military forces in Asia, will be called the Indo-Pacific Command.
The name change, Mattis explained, reflects “the increasing connectivity between the Indian and Pacific Oceans,†as well as Washington’s determination to remain the dominant power in both.
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