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US, Philippines stage scaled down military drills amid pandemic
The annual exercises were canceled last year as the pandemic spread across the world.
Hanoi: Chinese ship rams, sinks Vietnamese fishing boat
The incident occurred in the South China Sea’s contested Paracel Islands, a Vietnamese official said Friday.
Philippines frets about war at sea for US
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said a 1951 treaty with the US needed to be re-examined to clear ambiguities that could cause chaos and confusion during a crisis
Tit-for-tat in the Taiwan Strait
Beijing and Washington continue spat over waters long considered international shipping lanes.
Two Navy warships sailed through disputed South China Sea waters on Monday
The latest freedom of navigation operation is designed to show China that it can't lay claim to international waters.
Blessed by the Coast Guard, this boat is about to become an artificial reef
The cruise liner El Dorado will be filled with water and sunk to a depth of about 100 feet.
By Patrick McCreless, News Herald of Panama City
‘We’ll see how frightened America is’ — Chinese admiral says sinking US carriers key to dominating South China Sea
"What the United States fears the most is taking casualties,” the admiral said.
By Jon Simkins
Coast Guard suspends search for missing child, suspected smuggler
The Haitian child and the suspected smuggler, a Bahamian citizen, went missing after their 18-foot boat overturned with 11 people on board Sunday in what authorities believe was an underworld operation from Freeport to Miami.
By Carl Prine
The 19 things you need to watch in 2019
More money and more personnel but also new challenges from rising rivals in the Western Pacific, Europe and the Persian Gulf. More changes to your leadership at the Pentagon. And more innovations that promise to transform the ways your Navy recruits, trains and retains its sailors.
By Geoff Ziezulewicz, Mark D. Faram, Natalie Gross, Tara Copp, AP, Leo Shane III, Carl Prine and David Larter, Defense News