US forces wargamed defending a Pacific ally from invasion with layers of firepower. Here's how the drills played out.

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Notable firsts include the use of Japan's Type-88 surface-to-ship missile system outside Japanese territory and the first launch of a Tomahawk missile from the Army's Typhon system abroad.

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The US risks losing a future war without cheap precision-kill weapons, top Pacific admiral warns

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Adm. Paparo said US forces need cheap weapons for less exquisite targets.

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US Army soldiers put drones to the test in the Pacific. They struggled in the heat.

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Japan's destroyers are getting Tomahawks and a big leap in offensive power

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Pacific allies are ready to help fix US shipbuilding, senators say, but confusion is standing in the way

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The US Air Force just underwent a massive stress test of how it would fight a high-end war in the Pacific

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Russia says it's thinking of putting missiles in Asia if the US keeps deploying weapons systems there

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Medium-range BUK surface-to-air missile systems are paraded in Moscow in 2015.
A Russian foreign deputy minister said Moscow is keeping open the option of deploying missiles in Asia if the US starts putting weapons in the Indo-Pacific.

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These are the biggest challenges facing the US Army in the Pacific, according to a general readying for the next war

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Soldiers recently completed a massive joint-force and multinational war game in Hawaii.

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In tropical jungles, US Army soldiers are training to own the night in a Pacific war

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Nighttime operations present soldiers with a number of opportunities to gain the advantage, Maj. Gen. Evans said.

U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Ryele Bertoch

The Ukraine war is showing US soldiers they need to be hard to find in the electromagnetic spectrum in a high-end fight

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The US Army's Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center training in Hawaii tested soldiers' capabilities in tropical war-fighting conditions.

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