China opens new runway in Micronesia's Yap islands, raising serious U.S. defense concerns in this strategically vital Pacific ...
Explore the dramatic events of the Battle of Midway, a pivotal turning point in WWII in the Pacific! Dive into the strategic ...
On the 7th of December 1941, the Japanese launched their surprise military strike on the United States naval base at Pearl ...
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India’s Pitch to the Pacific Islands

The Pacific Islands are rapidly becoming a key arena of competition between India and China.
Each year on February 15, followers gather at Sulfur Bay near the smoking slopes of Mount Yasur, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, to celebrate John Frum Day. Dressed in improvised military ...
The Japanese let loose roughly 9,300 balloon bombs during World War II. (U.S. Navy) During World War II, balloons became one of the most feared weapons of the day. Yes, balloons. Although they’re used ...
Arthur P. Barrett Jr. served on the USS De Haven, a destroyer he and his father helped build at Bath Iron Works.
Twenty-seven cavalrymen charged Japanese infantry at Morong, Philippines, on January 16, 1942. They scattered hundreds of ...
F/A-18 Super Hornets multirole fighters, an E-2D Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft, and two MH-60S/R Seahawk helicopters flew in formation over CVN-78 ...
"I'd say that many times, 'Why did you ever sign those papers?' But we survived somehow." All these years later, Chervak's ...
Seven Japanese-American soldiers deemed “enemy aliens” in World War II were posthumously commissioned eight decades after ...
Donald Trump’s administration has made it clear that it expects more military burden-sharing from South Korea.