A number of U.S. and South Korean guided missile destroyers and a Japanese warship joined for drills in the disputed East China Sea.
Antietam's homeport shift is part of a broader rearrangement of vessels in the West Pacific.
The George Washington is also poised to return to Yokosuka, Japan, as the Navy’s only forward-deployed carrier later this year.
Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines are developing similar ways to fight concealed across island chains.
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