Kavanagh urges U.S. pullback to Second Island Chain — SkimNews
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- Jennifer Kavanagh called for the U.S. to end its formal security commitments to Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.
- Defense Priorities called for withdrawing nearly all U.S. forces from those three countries to the Second Island Chain.
- Second Island Chain is the proposal’s named destination for the pullback, while the source headline explicitly rejects the move as “strategic folly.”
Why it matters: For Japan, South Korea and the Philippines, the proposal would change two specific elements of the security relationship with the U.S.: formal commitments and the withdrawal of nearly all U.S. forces. It covers all three states, although the supplied excerpt does not explain the operational alternative at the Second Island Chain.
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