The island chain strategy is a strategic maritime containment plan first conceived by American foreign policy statesman
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The second island chain, also called the "second island cloud" by Earl Hancock Ellis, has two different interpretations, but the version most commonly used refers to the island chain which is formed by Japan's Bonin Islands… See more

The third island chain is the final part of the strategy. This island chain begins at the Aleutian Islands and runs south across the center of the Pacific Ocean towards Oceania, through the Hawaiian Islands, American S… See more

The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI), a group under the Center for Strategic and International Studies, argues that a fourth and a fifth island chain should be added to an overall understanding of Chinese m… See more

The primary target of the doctrine was originally the biggest communist country, the Soviet Union. However, additional targets also included the other communist countries like the China, Vietnam, and North Korea. … See more

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