The Deluge, the Paper Cup, and Washington’s Lack of Urgency on Guam

As I conclude nearly four decades of military and public service, including as lieutenant governor of Guam, a line from the 1986 Crowded House song Don’t Dream It’s Over keeps returning to me: “Trying to catch a deluge in a paper cup.”For Guam — a United States territory and cornerstone of American power projection increasingly under threat from both North Korea and China — that metaphor appears increasingly, and disturbingly, apt. Among U.S. defense planners and senior policymakers, the commitment to defend this central node in the Second Island Chain is well understood and rarely questioned. By contrast, Guam remains poorly understood by

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