With no allies in the region willing to host US missiles, Washington should push for Japan’s rearmament, says a new report None of the U.S. allies in the Pacific are currently willing to host medium-range missiles, says a new report by the company RAND, a think-tank tasked with developing strategy for the Pentagon. Instead, the authors suggest, Washington should encourage Japan to develop its own missile arsenal to threaten Chinese ships. Within days of the US withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in August 2019, the Pentagon revealed that work on previously banned missiles and want station they’re...