By Steven Wills, Defense Opinion Writer. Whenever Department of Defense funds are in short supply, U.S. Army officers want to target the aircraft carrier force for cutbacks. This is not […] ...

Over the years they have received many monikers, some more irreverent than others. Soldiers of the sea. Teufelhund. Uncle Sam's Misguided Children. Leatherneck. Jarhead. Crayon eaters. But at the end ...

F or the first time, researchers have detected an intriguing phenomenon in a deep-sea cave near Minamidaito Island in ...

These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout ...

April 1945. The Imperial Japanese Navy’s final remnants gathered for one last mission: Operation Ten-Go. Led by the massive ...

The Japanese government will put on display records showing that China had historically recognized the Senkaku Islands in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture as islands outside its territory, Jiji Press ...

Beijing is trying to drive a wedge between Okinawa and Tokyo.

“Marines” will be the second series aired this fall by Netflix about the sea service. The comedy-drama “Boots,” about a gay ...

Forget crowded cities and instead escape to Okinawa, a subtropical paradise in the East China Sea that’s the country’s own ...

Chinese observers downplayed Beijing's reference to Okinawans as "indigenous", saying the comments were primarily a critique of the militarisation of Japan's southernmost prefecture - home to dozens ...

The U.S. has deployed troops and anti-ship missiles into the northern Philippines as part of almost continuous, joint war ...

The Marine Corps has relieved the command team of an MV-22 Osprey squadron based in Hawaii, citing a loss of trust and ...