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...
China Will Increase Its Defense Budget 7.2% This Year China said it will increase its defense budget 7.2% this year, as it continues its campaign to build a larger, more modern...
Stress and Fear Roil a Tiny, Rapidly Militarizing Japanese Island near Taiwan The tiny island of Yonaguni on Japan’s western frontier is too small for even a chain convenience store.
Trump's Abrupt Change of US Policy on Ukraine Raises Questions About Taiwan Support U.S. President Donald Trump’s abrupt reversal of three years of American policy toward Ukraine has raised concerns China...
52 Years After a US Spy Plane Was Shot Down over Laos, a Family Still Fights for Answers: Did the Crew All Perish or Were Half of Them Left Behind? The peace treaty was signed. Prisoners of war were coming home. The last thing America needed was an international incident.
North Korea's Kim Slams US-South Korea-Japan Partnership and Vows to Boost His Nuclear Program His latest statement implies that the North Korean leader won’t likely embrace President Donald Trump’s overture to meet him...
Canada and Philippines are in Final Negotiations for Defense Pact to Boost Joint Military Exercises Canada has been reinforcing its military presence in the Indo-Pacific region.
‘High Stress, High Stakes’: Behind-The-Scenes Look at Super Bowl Flyover “Celebrating America 250 and Super Bowl 60, we wanted to go big and really have that majestical display of air power for...
Why Some Disabled Veterans Can't Get Both VA Disability and Military Retirement Pay Military service members planning medical retirement face a critical decision point at the 20-year mark.
Veteran Who Served for Both Japanese and US Forces Turns 100 "Mino" Ohye, who pulled off quite a rare feat during his military service, celebrated his 100 birthday on Thursday in West...
How Former SEAC Ramón Colón-López Is Redefining Leadership After Service After serving as the nation’s top enlisted leader, Ramón “CZ” Colón-López explains what real leadership requires—and why his...
This 20-Year-Old Sacrificed His Life and Became the First Black Marine Medal of Honor Recipient Every February, Black History Month shines a light on Americans whose contributions shaped the nation. One belongs to Pfc...
![Kim Jong Un visits an artillery exercise at an undisclosed place in North Korea.](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-02/ApNewsroom_Koreas_Tensions_01841.jpg?itok=q6WOc6kT "FILE - In this undated photo provided Oct. 6, 2024, by the North Korean government, its leader Kim Jong Un, center, visits an artillery exercise at an undisclosed place in North Korea. 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, File)")
![](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2026-01/Mino%201%20.jpg?itok=ULDG5h2L ""Mino" Ohye salutes during a party at the West Sacramento VFW. (Submitted)")
