The deployment will last several months and is scheduled to conduct exercises in Japan and other regional islands.

For decades, the United States has relied on airpower and the qualitative superiority of its aircraft to gain an advantage ...

The "Michigan" deployed "superb operational planning and risk management during the completion of three highly successful ...

Plans are also afoot to establish more bases west of Darwin, reaching as far as the Cocos Islands and the US-UK military ...

United States and Japan are dusting off old geopolitical frameworks for the Pacific not seen since World War II.

These costs have heightened debate over whether the United States needs so many bases ... U.S. forces occupied hundreds of bases in Japan and the Pacific to surround China and the Soviet Union.

When one looks at the military buildup that China has been engaged in since Xi Jinping became president in 2012, the ...

An F-16C Fighting Falcon made an emergency landing at Kadena on Monday, according to a local newspaper, the second such ...

The base also has a counterdrug training center and a support center for naval operations. NAS Lemoore was initially established to support the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet and supports the Strike ...

while a United States "flattop" remained in the Philippine Sea, a marginal sea in the Western Pacific Ocean. The George Washington remained pierside at Yokosuka naval base, its home port in the ...

A relative lack of airbase fortifications by the US in the Indo-Pacific region has created an imbalance that favors China, ...

China’s military capabilities, particularly its growing missile arsenal, have increased the need for the United States to ...