How the Beirut bombing of a Marine Corps barracks changed everything
A new book showcases how the 1983 bombing of a Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, paved the way for America's war on terrorism.
By Todd South
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US, Philippine forces stage combat drills near strategic Bashi Channel
U.S. Marines and their Filipino counterparts have staged joint combat drills near southern Taiwan, a flashpoint in the Washington-Beijing military rivalry.
Fatal fire clues dragged down to a watery grave
After the Coast Guard halts rescue operations following scuba boat inferno, investigators take over.
Officials: 34 presumed dead after fire on scuba diving boat
Coast Guard records show all safety violations from the last five years were quickly addressed by the boat's owners.
Coast Guard: As many as 34 dead in California boat fire
Five crew members who jumped off the dive boat Conception were rescued, and Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Kroll told The Associated Press the Coast Guard was searching for others who may have been able to escape the same way.
Torpedo Junction: The South Pacific’s brutal underwater war
To beat back or blunt the first Allied offensive in the Pacific, Japan needed to cut the supply lifeline. They failed.
By John Prados, HistoryNet.com
Coasties rescue lost diver
The crew found her miles away from the shipwreck she had been exploring.
By Navy Times staff
British frigate shadows Chinese warship in the English Channel
Beijing's guided-missile destroyer Xian was returning from Russia's annual Navy Days in St. Petersburg.
Dead by their own hands: Why the Germans scuttled a fleet
Just a few fathoms below Scapa Flow’s dark surface lie the remains of a navy — four battleships and four light cruisers of the Imperial German High Seas Fleet, scuttled by their own crews in 1919 in the largest act of self-destruction in naval history.
By Mark T. Simmons, Military History