More than 645,000 poppy flowers — one for every American killed in combat since World War I — visualize the cost of war and the magnitude of the sacrifices made by fallen service members.

President Joe Biden collected promises to improve a collective defense in South Korea and reinstate large military exercises there suspended in 2017.

President Joe Biden signaled an apparent end to the US policy of strategic ambiguity by saying the United States would defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion.

The Lincoln, on patrol since leaving San Diego on Jan. 3, is making a port call for ship-board maintenance and to provide the crew some downtime.

Warrior week is meant to identify “the best of the best” and to get “soldiers back to the idea of mastering the fundamentals,” Command Sgt. Maj. Albert Turner said.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that allies must “move at the speed of war” to get more weaponry into the hands of Ukrainian forces, following meetings with dozens of foreign military leaders at Ramstein Air Base on Tuesday.

The Expert Soldier Badge competition, the first ever for U.S. Army Japan, began Monday with a field of 121 from across Japan and Guam. The competing troops spent a week training for the tests they would face.

U.S. military bases and schools hold special events in April to honor military families and their children.

The combined-arms, live-fire demonstration launched last month at the U.S. Army’s African Land Forces Summit displayed American military might for key leaders of African armies — many of whom have long worked with U.S. forces and others with whom American generals aim to strengthen ties.

The Fuji Flatliners are one of three women’s roller derby teams at U.S. military bases in the Tokyo area. After a lengthy pandemic layoff, they’re ready to start trading elbows and insults again.

The U.S. and its allies are deliberately showing off their strength during the Cold Response exercise and putting Russia on notice, should it decide to attack another nation along its borders.

Three C-130s out of Ramstein on a mission Friday earned an unusual distinction: they flew the first training formation with all-women crew members in the squadron’s history, which goes back to World War II.

Three MV-22 Ospreys descended on a mountain clearing during a drill this week marking the first coordinated use of the tilt-rotor aircraft by the U.S. Marine Corps and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force.

The 36th Airlift Squadron celebrated women in aviation Tuesday by taking Yokota High School students aloft and talking about women’s achievements in the air.

After Russia launched its attack on Ukraine last week, the entire brigade was ordered to Hohenfels, Germany, where it will gather its weapons and vehicles and train before potentially deploying to bolster NATO defenses on its eastern flank.

The Noble Fusion exercise combined concepts reminiscent of the Marines’ Pacific island-hopping campaigns of World War II, with a 21st century warfighting doctrine.

An annual ceremony reenacts the 2nd Brigade Engineer Battalion’s actions on Nov. 30, 1950.