WASHINGTON, March 6 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on March 5, 2024: * * * U.S. Leadership in the Pacific Is at Risk By Charles Edel and Kathryn Paik The United States became a Pacific country more than 100 years ago, acquiring strategic positions in Hawaii, the Philippines, Samoa, Guam, Midway, and Wake Island in a manner that the famous U.S. historian Ernest May described as "unconcernedly and almost unthinkingly" in his book, Imperial  more