China continues to strengthen its control over the hotly contested South China Sea, as recent analysis of satellite imagery ...

It is estimated that China spent $590 million building its first overseas military base in Djibouti on the Horn of Africa. The strategically-located military base has been under construction since ...

Mageshima is located in the narrow Osumi Strait, one of the few waterways used by the Chinese navy to gain access to the ...

The artificial island, built upon a rock, serves as China's administrative center in the contested waters, one it first occupied in the 1950s. Its military facilities, including a 20-hangar airstrip, ...

IN 1942 Guadalcanal saw hand-to-hand combat between American marines and Japanese soldiers. On September 10th the island hosted another geopolitical tussle—when leaders of Pacific-island countries as ...

Japan plans to deploy medium-range surface-to-air missiles on Yonaguni – making it a frontline of defence in the event of a Chinese attack on Taiwan – as part of its broader military build-up across ...

Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance grew up outside the city during the Cold War. And the specter of nuclear conflict and an attack on the area’s military infrastructure loomed over her childhood. “The ...