Adm. Linda Fagan, commandant of the Coast Guard, was fired from a position she’s held for more than two years, according to an announcement sent to the service Tuesday morning.

The initial shipment of 28 M1A2 Abrams tanks arrived at the Polish port of Gdynia over the weekend.

NATO countries are ready to “turbocharge” defense spending, the alliance’s top official said this week.

U.S. Air Force bombers from South Dakota are back in the Western Pacific for the region’s first bomber task force mission of the year.

A Marine Corps Osprey accidentally dropped a load of rations weighing nearly 1,000 pounds into the ocean west of Okinawa during training last week.

Japanese troops removed and defused an American shell believed to be from World War II from a construction site in Okinawa’s capital city over the weekend.

Japan’s Supreme Court recently denied Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki’s final legal challenge to stop construction at a future Marine Corps airfield in the island’s north.

President Donald Trump on Monday ordered defense officials to come up with a security plan that could include deploying more troops and drones and building up more barriers, such as the border wall.

The Senate Armed Services Committee on Monday advanced Pete Hegseth’s bid to become President Donald Trump’s defense secretary, sending his nomination to the Senate floor over the objections of Democrats.

A large number of senior career diplomats who served in politically appointed leadership positions at the State Department have left their posts at the demand of the incoming Trump administration, which plans to install its own people in those positions.