A highly visible missile base on Okinawa is part of a Japanese defense buildup made amid fears of Beijing’s growing power and ...

China has deployed multiple warships to waters east of the First Island Chain—formed by Japan, Taiwan, and the ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family have visited Okinawa to pray for the war dead ahead of the 80th anniversary marking ...

The establishment wants you to believe it's all about the number of ships but the rot runs much deeper, which can lead to ...

Explore the strategic considerations, military risks, and potentially catastrophic outcomes of a war between China and Taiwan ...

Looking back in history, here were some of the happenings in the Cookeville area for the week of May 23-30 as recorded in the pages of the Herald-Citizen: ...

After three crewmen were swallowed up by the Pacific at the end of World War II, a modern-day rescue effort went to find them ...

The little known chapter in the aircraft carrier’s history is the subject of a new book, “The Sailing of the Intrepid.” ...

From the American Revolution to modern battles, take a look back at the full toll of U.S. deaths in war this Memorial Day.

Vice Admiral William Halsey Jr. launched the largest carrier-based attack in U.S. Navy history to shift momentum in the Pacific War. This offensive targeted Rabaul, a heavily fortified Japanese ...

Japan launched a suicide attack campaign as a last-ditch measure to push U.S. forces back late in the war, when it was hopelessly losing. The Imperial Navy founded ... sun” flag so he could ...

Launched in 1940 and commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), the battleship Yamato ... or other necessary systems for winning a modern war, the Americans rely heavily upon their ...