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...
Southeast Asia Foreign Ministers Seek Breakthrough in Myanmar Conflict and South China Sea Dispute The retreat was the first major meeting of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nation.
Marco Rubio Warns China Is America's 'Biggest Threat,' Affirms Value of NATO Alliance Florida Sen. Marco Rubio painted a dark vision of the consequences of America's "unbalanced relationship" with China, echoing...
Hegseth Has Ordered a Combat Standards Review. It's Unclear How It Might Apply to All the Services. It's a move that underscores Hegseth's broader push for higher standards in the military, but also one that reflects the long...
'In No Way Incompatible': Service Academy Alums Sign Letter Supporting Transgender Cadets, Midshipmen Alumni representing every academy and a broad spectrum of generations have signed onto an open letter aimed at providing...
Military Retirees Say They Were Denied Extended GI Bill Benefits Despite Supreme Court Ruling The officers had extensive service under the Montgomery and Post-9/11 GI Bills yet were not given an extra 12 months of...
Why You Should Buy a Tank You can buy surplus military vehicles, and yes, that includes tanks. Here's how to get the hottest set of wheels (sorry...
No Deal: White House Says DC's F-16 Transfer to Maryland Is Off the Table A deal last year to transfer an F-16 Fighting Falcon squadron from the District of Columbia Air National Guard to Maryland...
![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)")
