Fort Wainwright's mission is to deploy combat ready forces to support joint military operations worldwide and serve as the Joint Force Land Component Command to support Joint Task Force Alaska.

The U.S. military conducts missile warning, missile defense and space surveillance missions from the base. According to Bouffard, the U.S. maintains significant defense capabilities in Alaska to ...

as well as increasing military infrastructure investments across Alaska. The western Aleutian island’s military base has been closed since 1997. Only about 50 people live on the island ...

After the assault on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Americans quickly became all too aware of their ... of a land route to supply military bases in Alaska now appeared to be crucial to most ...