Following a recent incident in which a U.S. surveillance plane flew over artificial islands China has erected in the South China Sea, the Pentagon has reissued an instruction on the use of international airspace by U.S. military aircraft and for missile and projectile firings. In a June 2 instruction signed by Christine Wormuth, the Pentagon's under secretary of defense for policy, the Pentagon reissued DOD instruction 4540.01 "to establish policy and assign responsibilities governing U.S. military aircraft operations and missiles...
