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Navy launches Chinese surveillance balloon salvage operation
The dock landing ship Carter Hall is spearheading the Navy’s balloon debris recovery efforts and collecting remnants near where it collapsed.
By Diana Stancy
Biden and Erdogan to meet at a tense moment for Turkish-US ties
The list of disagreements is unusually long for the two NATO allies: There's U.S. support for Kurdish fighters in Syria, as well as Turkey’s purchase of a Russian weapons system.
Best pics of the week: June 6, 2021
The 2021 Dragon Challenge, a landing craft departs for an amphibious raid exercise, and more in this week's Best Pics of the Week.
US, Russia at odds over military activity in the Arctic
As Russia assumed the chairmanship of the Arctic Council, the U.S. rallied other members to oppose Moscow’s plans to set maritime rules in the Northern Sea Route.
Russia’s northernmost base projects its power across Arctic
The Russian base was built using new construction technologies as part of Kremlin efforts to bolster the military amid spiraling tensions with the West following Russia's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula.
Best pics of the week: May 16, 2021
Airmen test the new Uniform Integrated Protective Ensemble Air two-piece system, troops participate in Exercise Northern Edge and more in this week's Frontline Photos.
US sailor who died while snorkeling off Tinian beach identified
Construction Mechanic Constructionman Gen Sun died April 18.
By Diana Stancy
This week in Congress: First fights over Biden’s budget plan
Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of April 12, 2021.
‘Northern Edge’ brings firepower to Alaska, with an eye on Arctic jockeying
Pacific Air Forces will lead the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps in the biennial, 12-day Northern Edge exercise beginning May 3.
Military personnel to assist at Detroit vaccination site
More than 220 Defense Department military and support personnel are expected at Ford Field in Detroit to support COVID-19 vaccination efforts.
Great power competition heats up in the thawing Arctic, and the US must respond
Russia and China have been busy in a rapidly changing Arctic, and America seems to have barely noticed.
By Bradley Bowman and Maj. Scott Adamson