An Unprecedented Number Of War Games Are Happening In The Pacific This Year

In May, a U.S. Navy boatswain watches an F/A-18E Super Hornet launching from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt off Alaska as part of series of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command exercises. (U.S. Navy, Eduardo Torres)  

Ann Wright, Consortium News: Crowding the Pacific & Pressuring China 

Ann Wright reports on the buildup of war practices in the region, including Russia’s training at the edge of U.S. territorial waters off Hawaii and massive U.S.-Australian maneuvers underway through August. 

Each week the Pacific is getting even more crowded with military ships, submarines and aircraft from countries in the region and from outside. NATO countries — United Kingdom, France, Germany and the Netherlands — are sending military vessels and aircraft. 

The Russian navy conducted military maneuvers off Hawai’i. The U.S. is on the verge of creating a permanent Pacific naval task force as a part of its aggressive response to China’s naval presence in the Pacific. The largest land exercise in Asia and the Pacific is taking place in Australia with 17,000 U.S. and Australian military.  

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WNU Editor: In Asia and the Western Pacific this is now the new normal.