The United States is working closely with its allies and partners across the Indo-Pacific region to develop new basing opportunities and increase interoperability across their forces, according to a Department of Defense official.
The nation is working to scale its defensive and logistical infrastructure to contend with a rapidly shifting threat environment, according to Assistant Secretary of Defense Mara Karlin.
“When we step back, we see a rate and scale of change that is meaningfully different in the Indo-Pacific and that’s across the board,” Karlin said during a Feb. 10 talk with the Brookings Institution, a D.C.-based think tank….