Army task forces ‘centerpiece’ for deterring China: INDOPACOM boss
Adm. Samuel Paparo praised the fires capabilities brought to a potential fight by the Army’s multidomain task forces in the Pacific.
By Todd South
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How Battle Brick Customs carved out a space for military collectors
The company produces kits based on real military vehicles, ranging from World War II tanks to modern U.S. Army Humvees and Special Forces boats.
By Clay Beyersdorfer
What if the Navy and Marine Corps had bypassed Iwo Jima?
Adm. Ernest King dismissed Iwo Jima as “a sink hole in the hands of whoever held it.”
By Mark Grimsley, World War II Magazine
UK lashed by storm; 2 found dead in rough seas
The body of one man was pulled out of the sea by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution after a seven-hour search that involved a Royal Navy vessel.
WWII vet, federal judge named by LBJ retires at 98
He had served longer than any other sitting federal judge.
By Carl Prine
Seventy-five years later, the Netherlands honors the ‘Black Liberators’ who helped end the Nazi occupation
In 1944, Allied forces began liberating the Netherlands from Nazi occupation. Among these soldiers were black GIs whose role in the liberation had largely been overlooked in historical accounts. Now, the Black Liberators Project seeks to highlight the service and sacrifice of these soldiers, including the 172 buried in Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten.
By Dylan Gresik
Best pics of the week: Feb. 9, 2020
Flight ops over Fuji, F-35s at Red Flag, anti-tank training in Poland and more of this week's best photos from around the military.
New use for a shuttered base?
Adak Island is the nation’s westernmost community, located 1,200 miles from Anchorage in the Aleutian Chain.
Days after Brexit, Royal Navy arrives in Belgium for war games
The maneuvers test the U.S. military's ability to pour thousands of troops and equipment into Europe alongside NATO allies and partners in times of crisis.
Setback in the Solomons
Punctuated by tactical ineptitude, the World War II Battle of Rennell Island slowed American momentum in the South Pacific.
By John Wukovits, World War II
Payback at Balikpapan
Only weeks after Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, four stalwart destroyers demonstrated that there was still plenty of fight left in the U.S. Navy.
By Michael Crowder, World War II
Stalin, FDR, Project Zebra and a crash everyone tried to pretend never happened
Back when the Navy ran a North Carolina Coast Guard station and the Soviets were our allies.
By Jeff Hampton, The Virginian-Pilot