Operation Hailstone, the two-day carrier assault launched 82 years ago this week, demolished Japan's largest overseas naval installation and sent more than 40 ships beneath the waves.

Crocodiles are massive reptiles with aggressive behaviors. Discover the most crocodile infested swamp in the world!

A Space Force base in Greenland allows the U.S. military to track Russian land- and submarine-based ballistic missiles.

Intended as China’s version of Dubai’s palm-shaped artificial island, Ocean Flower Island is a $12 billion monument to debt-fueled economic excess. The sprawling Ocean Flower Island project in Hainan, ...

Over the past 40 years, the U.S. has sent billions of dollars to three remote island nations in the Pacific. In return, the U.S. got access to important military sites in a region where Washington is ...

Few sovereignty disputes end with a toast. Ottawa and Copenhagen managed it anyway, turning a fight over an uninhabited Arctic rock into a study in how allies can argue without forgetting why they’re ...

Across sleepy and remote islands in the Pacific, U.S. military engineers are working around the clock to revive strategically important airstrips that American troops first built under fire over 70 ...

In 1942, British scientists carried out a classified military experiment on the remote island of Gruinard off the coast of Scotland. The test involved detonating anthrax spores to evaluate their ...

As many as three Civil War blockade runners have been located buried on Sullivan’s Island near Fort Moultrie, according to the S.C. The Maritime Research Division. SCIAA image Shipwrecks frequently ...

Brendan Riley’s Solano Chronicles column appears every other Sunday in the print edition of the Vallejo Times-Herald. In mid-1941 the U.S. was five months away from entry into World War II. But a ...