Taren Dillon Sylvester is a researcher with the Center for a New American Security’s Military, Veterans, and Society Program.
Evan Wright is an Indo-Pacific analyst at the Center for a New American Security and a nonresident fellow at the Johns Hopkins SAIS Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies.
In Guam, one is quickly struck by the juxtaposition of crystal-clear waters with crumbling infrastructure and abandoned cars strewn across the small Pacific island.
