Beijing has built up the world’s largest navy and wants to reclaim Taiwan – but the West are also fighting for influence in ...

January 20, 1945 The Japanese emperor, Hirohito, approves Ketsu-Go - the plan for a final ... in the largest land offensive of the Pacific War. August 9, 1945 Japan learns that the Soviets ...

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is still conducting ... five or six carriers to the western Pacific in the ...

The plans were first announced in April as part ... This was one of the costliest amphibious assaults of the war in the Pacific. Cameras were rolling as U.S. forces worked the island over with ...

And such were concerns about the size and scale of the war, War Plan Red is very explicit ... Canada to fend off any British attacks from the Pacific or Atlantic. And should they be successful ...

At War in the Pacific National Historical Park, the former battlefields, gun emplacements, trenches, and historic structures all serve as silent reminders of the bloody World War II battles that raged ...

The ship shortage comes at an uncertain time for the Marine Corps. Its war plans are in flux. But instead of evolving its doctrine from a position of strength and flexibility, the Corps is rewriting ...

January 20, 1945 The Japanese emperor, Hirohito, approves Ketsu-Go - the plan for a final ... in the largest land offensive of the Pacific War. August 9, 1945 Japan learns that the Soviets ...

“They look out at the Pacific, and they see tens of thousands ... And yet, no one is ready to rule out that war is part of Xi’s plans. He certainly wants the world to believe he could start ...

For Australia and its Western allies, it is part of an ongoing scrum over China’s plans to conquer the Pacific. For more than a decade ... loom large in national memories of the Second World War. The ...