The training center is being designed so simulations can be adapted to include weapons and aircraft from other U.S. military branches, as well as NATO allies. Its location underlines the importance of Alaska and the Arctic to the U.S.
Hawaii conservation groups are voicing their opposition to plans by the U.S. Space Force to conduct cargo rocket testing at Johnston Atoll, a national wildlife refuge in the Pacific.
A Russian warplane violated Estonian airspace this week, prompting NATO to scramble its air policing fighters in response, defense officials from the Baltic country said.
After Adm. Kevin Lunday took over as acting commandant of the Coast Guard, the service’s ships were immediately surged to southern Florida and other areas of the country to deter maritime migration. Many of the Coast Guard’s cutters are approaching 50 years old.
NATO’s Formidable Shield 2025 features 16 ships, 27 planes and eight ground units from 11 NATO and partner nations. The exercise began a decade ago as a naval missile defense demonstration but has grown to include allied air forces and, in recent years, ground troops.
China’s efforts to buy influence in Africa through infrastructure and investment may not yield the returns Beijing hopes for, said Vice Adm. Jeffrey Anderson, commander of U.S. 6th Fleet and Striking and Support Forces NATO. The U.S. is viewed as the “preferred partner,” he said.
NATO is sending long-range surveillance aircraft to Lithuania for a mission across the Baltics, the alliance said in a recent statement.
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Top Iranian officials are for the first time in decades overtly promoting their economy to the White House to secure a lasting and more effective nuclear accord. Tehran’s top envoy has even said his country’s nuclear program itself could become a target for U.S. investment.
Joint projects in the Arctic, as well as oil and gas and rare-earth minerals, are among the options being considered under a partnership the U.S. would offer as part of a peace pact, people familiar with the planning told Bloomberg, asking not to be identified.
Three locations in Oregon, and one each in Idaho and Nevada have been selected as potential sites for a part of a $400 million modernized radar system to detect air and space attacks in North America