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Prognosis good for Navy Medicine, but budget concerns loom

Talking about a future war at sea, Vice Adm. C. Forrest Faison III kept returning to memories of the fighting in Iraq.

By Navy Times staff

5 years ago

Atlanta to get new Tricare Prime option in pilot program to test care based on value not volume

The Defense Health Agency is rolling out a new Tricare Prime option in Atlanta, part of its efforts to test "value-based care" programs.

By Patricia Kime

6 years ago

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

6 years ago

Even before US ships moved through the Taiwan Strait, the region was simmering

In the South China Sea, Beijing is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons in waters crucial for global commerce and rich in fish and potential oil and gas reserves.

6 years ago

From first shot to the silence of peace: Timeline of World War I

Unleashed by an archduke’s assassination, World War I gradually entangled more and more countries, killing millions of soldiers and civilians and touching multiple continents.

7 years ago

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