In early November, the German Navy frigate Bayern docked in Japan after two days of exercises with the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Samidare.  No, it’s not the reestablishment of the Axis Powers, but it’s still significant. “The Indo-Pacific is today one of the strategically most important regions of the world,” Gen. Eberhard Zorn, chief More

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