A recent poll suggests China is the popular choice in Southeast Asia, but the United States still has the cooperation of the region’s military forces, the commander of U.S. Army Pacific said Wednesday.

The U.S. Air Force is at war with an army of beetles eating their way through thousands of trees on its facilities in western Tokyo.

Around 170 people took part in the ceremony, but no U.S. World War II veterans came this year to the island now known as Iwo To in Japan, a III Marine Expeditionary Force spokesman said.

U.S. Marines have returned to northern Australia as part of a six-month training tour across the South Pacific that will also include drills in the Philippines and Indonesia.

The U.S. military recently teamed up with the FBI and the Smithsonian Institution to return 22 artworks and other items missing since World War II to Okinawa. The return of the artifacts, believed to have been looted by U.S. troops, has rekindled interest in other treasures lost during the Battle of Okinawa nearly 80 years ago.

U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will reveal a plan to restructure the U.S. military command in Japan next month in light of concerns over China, The Financial Times reported Sunday.

The Air Force used a Guam-based B-52H Stratofortress bomber this week to test a hypersonic missile it had relegated to prototype status.

American military personnel will visit a Philippine island near Taiwan next month to discuss building a new, U.S.-funded port, according to Philippine officials.

Col. Bruce Avriett, commander of the 552nd Air Control Wing at Tinker Air Force Base, has died.

Ballistic missile launches by North Korea, like the three Monday, are meant to deter the United States with the supreme goal of keeping the country’s communist rulers in power, an expert said.