The First Island Chain is designed to project force by using U.S.-friendly territories to deter and defend against aggression ...

These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout the world as of Feb. 2, 2026, based on Navy and public data. In cases in ...

In December 1944, a powerful Pacific typhoon struck the US Navy’s Third Fleet while it operated near the Philippines. Poor weather intelligence and rigid command decisions left dozens of ships exposed ...

Any advances in naval power will be left vulnerable if not backed up by serious efforts to revive America’s Merchant Marine.

F/A-18 Super Hornets multirole fighters, an E-2D Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft, and two MH-60S/R Seahawk helicopters flew in formation over CVN-78 ...

The U.S. Navy said it conducted an exercise with the Philippines in the South China Sea in accordance with international law.

Chief of Naval Operations Daryl Caudle’s advice on reforming US Navy doctrine is at once prescient and rooted in age-old ...

At the heart of the Air Force's combat search and rescue corps is its aging fleet of rescue helicopters. But as the Air Force ...

President Donald Trump promised that help was “on the way”. Picture: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall Now, with unconfirmed death ...

Grays endure an epic roundtrip journey of 10,000 miles or more, and California holds a prime seat through May. Along with ...

Institutionalizing engagements across their coast guard agencies can help strengthen the maritime security architecture of ...

Without industrial cooperation with Japan and South Korea, U.S. naval expansion in the Indo-Pacific will remain a pipe dream.