KYIV, Ukraine — While the overall number of US military personnel in Europe is set to decrease, the center of gravity of American military forces in Europe is shifting steadily eastward, underscoring the existential security concerns about Russian ...
A search and rescue operation has ended for seven US Marines and one sailor who went missing after an assault amphibious vehicle (AAV) accident off the coast of Southern California on Thursday. All eight service members are presumed dead, the ...
For the first time in 45 years, American astronauts will be splashing down in the ocean upon their return to earth this weekend. NASA astronauts and US military veterans Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken are scheduled to touch down in the Atlantic ...
One US Marine is dead and eight service members remain missing after an assault amphibious vehicle (AAV) accident off the coast of Southern California on Thursday. Some 15 Marines and one sailor were aboard the vehicle when it began taking on ...
Seventy-five years ago today a Japanese submarine sunk the USS Indianapolis in the Pacific days after the American cruiser delivered the final components of the “Little Boy” atomic bomb to US Army Air Forces on the island of Tinian. Some 880 of ...
An Iranian missile launch on Tuesday prompted personnel at two key US military bases in the Middle East to briefly take shelter, underscoring the increased missile threat against US forces around the world, which has spurred the US Air Force to ...
After 34 years flying the F/A-18 Hornet jet fighter, the Blue Angels just got a new ride. On Monday the U.S. Navy’s revered flight demonstration team received their first of 18 planned F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet jet fighters, part of a process to ...
In April, the Department of Defense released three videos taken by U.S. Navy pilots showing what the military defines as unexplainable aerial phenomena, or UAPs — more commonly known in civilian vernacular as unidentified flying objects, or ...
Just two living generations ago, the deadliest war in human history was fought. Some of the soldiers who fought in that war, and the civilians who survived it, are still alive today. Thus, no one should think that another war like World War II is ...
Earlier this month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection dispatched an elite tactical unit to help quell civil unrest in Portland, Oregon. The move has come under fire from some quarters amid allegations that the agency’s Border Patrol Tactical ...
U.S. officials ordered China to shut its consulate in Houston, escalating an ongoing, geopolitical tit-for-tat between Beijing and Washington that spans the gamut from a trade war to cyberattacks, espionage, and naval brinksmanship in the South China ...
America’s 2018 National Security Strategy warned of a new era of “global disorder, characterized by decline in the long-standing rules-based international order — creating a security environment more complex and volatile than any we have experienced ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Ever since Russia invaded and seized Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in 2014, the Black Sea has emerged as a geopolitical hotspot, pitting NATO and Russian forces against each other in a tit-for-tat chess game of dueling exercises and ...
In his opinion for the Jacobellis v. Ohio Supreme Court ruling in 1964, Justice Potter Stewart offered his famous definition of hardcore pornography. “I know it when I see it,” Potter wrote. Used to be you could say the same thing about war and ...
KYIV, Ukraine — The summer doldrums are notorious for inciting violence. This past week on the entrenched battlefields of eastern Ukraine was no exception. Combined Russian-separatist forces — operating under Moscow’s command — have continued ...
On Nov. 5, 2019, U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant Cole Condiff, 29, a Special Tactics combat controller based at Hurlburt Field in Florida, died during a static line training jump when his reserve parachute inadvertently deployed as he leaned out an ...
KYIV, Ukraine — The U.S. Air Force has a new eye in the sky in Russia’s backyard. On June 14, for the first time ever, MQ-9 Reaper drones deployed to Ämari Air Base, Estonia — located roughly 150 miles from the country’s border with mainland ...
While the battle against the coronavirus pandemic continues, America has recently made major strides in combatting another public health crisis — the war on drugs. Over the past 12 weeks, U.S. counternarcotics forces working for U.S. Southern ...
KYIV, Ukraine — In 1935 the American air power visionary General Billy Mitchell told Congress: “I believe that in the future, whoever holds Alaska will hold the world.” Nearly a century later, U.S. military forces in Alaska remain at the vanguard ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Residents of a northern Russian village were informed this week that they were living in a “danger zone” due to unspecified “work” being done a little more than 1 mile away at a secretive weapons testing site where the Russian ...
KYIV, Ukraine — The sound of freedom roared over the South China Sea this Independence Day, underscoring America’s commitment to maintain freedom of movement within a region where China has made controversial territorial claims and often bucked ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s military plans to arm some of its front-line units with U.S.-made Javelin anti-tank missiles as well as armed Turkish drones, underscoring a significant, possibly destabilizing policy shift after more than six years of ...
KYIV, Ukraine — On March 23, 2017, a 45-year-old former Russian parliamentarian named Denis Voronenkov stepped out of the Premier Palace Hotel in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. An outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin who had sought ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Kurdish Peshmerga forces repelled two attacks by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps troops along the Iraq-Iran border last week, underscoring a long-simmering resistance movement by Iranian Kurdish groups, operating from ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Recent news reports that a Russian military spy agency paid the Taliban to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan marks an extraordinarily brazen escalation of Moscow’s hybrid war against the U.S. and the West. Yet many experts also say ...
KYIV, Ukraine — News broke on Friday evening that a Russian military intelligence unit offered payments to Taliban fighters to kill NATO coalition soldiers in Afghanistan, including U.S. personnel. If true, the plot marks an extraordinary ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Despite the ongoing pandemic, the world’s other geopolitical problems haven’t gone away. Of particular importance, the United States, Russia, and China are at the cusp of a new nuclear arms race. U.S. and Russian officials met in ...
KYIV, Ukraine — With the news cycle moving a mile a minute these days, you might have missed the news that a shipment of U.S. military aid, including Javelin anti-tank missiles, arrived in Ukraine last week. You may also not have heard about the $600 ...
A U.S. army soldier has been arrested and indicted by a federal court for allegedly plotting with a notorious Satan-worshipping, neo-Nazi extremist group to ambush his unit, which is based in Europe. The United States District Court, Southern ...
There are a lot of ways to die in the Himalayas. Frostbite. Altitude sickness. Avalanches. Rockfalls. Gravity. Now, you can add Chinese soldiers wielding spiked clubs to that list. India said 20 of its soldiers died in a confrontation with ...
