So millions of dollars wasted to change the name for no reason again.
It's easy to read too much into the tea leaves on these things, but this matches with Hegseth's
of the phrase "Indo-Pacific" in his recent speech at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. It also aligns with signs that the United States is increasingly unenthusiastic about the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, i.e. the so-called "Quad" grouping of US-Japan-India-Australia.
As Graeme Dobell points out in the above linked discussion, the "Indo-Pacific" construct emerged as a way to bring India into the US-led containment matrix against China. That it is now being loudly discarded (i.e. not just by omission from speeches) in favour of a return to an older conceptual framework is therefore suggestive of evolving American attitudes towards both China and India.
