Asia Pacific

MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII—U.S. Marine Corps Forces Pacific has a new commander—and some fresh warnings from the commandant.  Lt. Gen. William Jurney passed the Pacific mantle to Lt. Gen. James...

Iran has sent Russia more than 200 short-range ballistic missiles, Ukrainian officials said last week, citing classified intelligence reports. The weapons are believed to be Fath-360 missiles, “which can reach...

Navy secretary violated prohibitions on political activity, federal office finds. Carlos Del Toro broke the Hatch Act during an official trip to the UK in January, the federal Office of...

Russia launched another 90-plus missiles and drones at Ukraine overnight, with 81 of those coming as Iranian-designed “Shahed” drones and nine others spanning cruise and ballistic missile varieties, according to...

Nearly 100 Israeli jets carried out a massive air attack inside Lebanon early Sunday, striking dozens of Hezbollah targets in order to stop what it described as “a large-scale terrorist...

The U.S. Air Force’s plan to scatter small bases around the Pacific may be in jeopardy until the service figures out how it can protect them, service chief Gen. David...

The Air Force and Army need to figure out how to provide base defense for small outposts around the Pacific before a key Air Force operating plan can succeed, according...

New: At three o’clock this morning, China’s Coast Guard rammed several Philippine Coast Guard vessels in the South China Sea, ripping a one-meter hole in one of Manila’s ships, and...

HONOLULU, Hawaii—U.S. Indo-Pacific Command is “underinvested” in special operations forces, “and I think SOF is underinvested in PACOM,” the command’s leader said Thursday. “But the time is now to get...

Among the most significant personnel changes of the Chinese Communist Party’s recent Third Plenum meeting are two that didn’t happen: Adm. Dong Jun, the country’s defense minister, was neither added to...