UK Navy Flagship to Sail Off in 'Powerful Message' of Capability The UK Royal Navy's flagship HMS Prince of Wales is to set sail to the Indo-Pacific as head of an international Carrier...
Marine Corps Provides Details on How New Littoral Regiment Would Fight in Pacific The Marine Corps' new littoral regiment is less than two years old and growing as the service contends with how to resupply...
US President Trump Brings Uncertainty to Plan to Reorganize US Forces in Japan The reorganization plan was pushed by the Biden administration, and so it is uncertain whether the new Trump administration...
'Filled With Arrogance': China Lashes Out at G7 Over Statements on Maritime Security Even for China's generally overheated diplomatic language, the statement was unusually vitriolic, although it did not...
Marine Corps Adds First Anti-Ship Missile Battery to Okinawa as Part of Recent Littoral Plan The Marine Corps stood up a unit meant to sow "chaos and uncertainty" for its adversaries in the Pacific on Tuesday...
Chinese Warships Circle Australia, Stoking an Anxious Nation’s Worst Fears The exercises do not appear to have breached international law. But they have fuelled deep anxieties in Australia about...
Pacific Commander Urges Faster Arming of Forces Adm. Samuel Paparo bemoaned what many senior commanders see as a slow, burdensome federal bureaucracy that has made it harder...
How Do You Change a Command's Culture? This General Tried Being Direct About War with China. In 2021, fresh off his previous role as deputy commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Minihan knew that a massive overhaul...
Philippine President Offers a Deal to China: Stop Sea Aggression and I'll Return Missiles to US The U.S. Army installed the Typhon mid-range missile system in the northern Philippines in April last year to support what...
North Korea Says it Tested Cruise Missile System and Vows 'Toughest' Response to US South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said North Korea launched “several” cruise missiles toward its western waters from an...
Nominee for Pentagon Personnel Chief Grilled Over Comments Calling for Purge of Generals Anthony Tata, whose past Islamaphobic and conspiratorial statements doomed his nomination for a top Pentagon job in the first...
VA Secretary Defends Staffing Cuts, Contract Cancellations in Heated Senate Hearing Lawmakers say the Department of Veterans Affairs has not provided answers for requests for information, while the VA...
Hegseth Works Hard to Portray Himself as a Man of the Troops. They Might Not Be Buying It. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News host and National Guardsman, has attempted to reframe the role of the...
Army's M10 Booker Gets Nixed Leaving Question Mark for Future Infantry's Firepower The Army is canning the short-lived M10 Booker, an armored fighting vehicle, amid concerns over its deployability and...
Trump's Plan to 'Save' Michigan Base with New Fighter Jet Squadron Not a Done Deal The lack of environmental analysis, funding and other roll-out details stems from the unusual situation of Trump making the...
![North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects testing of sea-to-surface strategic cruise guided weapons.](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-01/ApNewsroom_North_Korea_Koreas_Tensions_45877.jpg?itok=XKlNEGWv "In this photo provided by the North Korean government, its leader Kim Jong Un, right, inspects testing of sea-to-surface strategic cruise guided weapons at an undisclosed location in North Korea, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)")
