Taren Dillon Sylvester is a researcher in the Military, Veterans, and Society Program at the Center for a New American Security. Evan Wright is an Indo-Pacific analyst at the Center for a New American Security and a non-resident fellow at the Johns Hopkins SAIS Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies.
Guam's crystal-clear waters juxtapose with the crumbling infrastructure and abandoned cars scattered across the tiny Pacific island is quickly surprising.