Chinese barges and Taiwan Strait drills are about global power projection − not just a potential invasion
In World War II, ‘Mulberry Harbours’ were used by American and British soldiers in the D-Day landings; China today is using ...
80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs
An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...
Map Shows US and Chinese Aircraft Carriers in Pacific This Week
Newsweek 's weekly update maps aircraft carrier movements in the Indo-Pacific region. As of March 14, the locations of 12 vessels were publicly available via military disclosures, as well as via ...
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Visiting veterans remember WWII Battle of Okinawa on 80th anniversary
Walter LaSota was blown out of a foxhole by a Japanese bomb the first time he was wounded during the World War II Battle of Okinawa. LaSota, a private with I Company, 22nd Marine Regiment ...
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Navy plans treatment plants to put fuel-contaminated Hawaii water back in service
The Navy plans to build treatment plants near Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam that would purify the fuel-contaminated water in ...
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From the Allen house to the Waldorf school: What was destroyed — and spared — in the fires
The places that burned, in Pacific Palisades ... sprees in Asia. Although these gardens were arguably Chinese in theme, and the Chinese were U.S. allies in World War II, the suspicions hovered ...
Monday Briefing: Devastation in Myanmar
An aftershock yesterday struck Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, near the epicenter of the initial quake, toppling ...
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Map Shows US and Chinese Aircraft Carriers in Pacific This Week
Newsweek's weekly update maps aircraft carrier movements in the Indo-Pacific region ... into Japan's first aircraft carrier since World War II, remained in Kure, a city southwest of Japan's ...
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The new bucket list for the Pacific and Australasia
There are 14 countries, by the United Nations’ count, in Oceania, but others that lie just outside it in the Asia-Pacific region ... troops during World War II to the luxury experience it ...
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The Medal of Honor Recipient Who Took on 5 Tanks in the Philippines – and Won
Like many patriotic Americans, he joined as war in Europe and Asia loomed large over the country ... (Courtesy photo) Vlug survived World War II and was discharged on June 14, 1945, returning ...
Trump is unlikely to turn on Australia. But what if he does?
If Trump turns on us, it might force Canberra to think about what there is to Australian foreign policy other than the US ...
U.S. mulls expanding military ties with Japan despite Trump's criticism of the alliance
President Trump has complained the U.S.-Japan defense partnership is one-sided, but with China throwing its weight around, ...