1261: Can Japan and the US contain the aggressive PLA Navy inside the First Island Chain? James Holmes, first holder of the Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and blogger at The Naval Diplomat (https://navaldiplomat.com/), @GordonGChang @ - a podcast by John Batchelor

Photo: Kamchatka peninsula, northernmost region of the First Island Chain.

The first island chain refers to the first chain of major archipelagos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archipelagos) out from the East Asian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian) continental mainland coast. Principally composed of the Kuril Islands (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuril_Islands) , Japanese Archipelago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Archipelago) , Ryukyu Islands (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryukyu_Islands) , Taiwan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan) (Formosa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formosa) ), the northern Philippines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines) , and Borneo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borneo) ; from the Kamchatka Peninsula (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamchatka_Peninsula) to the Malay Peninsula (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malay_Peninsula) . 
 
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Can Japan and the US contain the aggressive PLA Navy inside the First Island Chain? James Holmes, first holder of the Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and blogger at The Naval Diplomat (https://navaldiplomat.com/), @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast 

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/china%E2%80%99s-navy-could-soon-leave-japan-far-behind-179140 

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