October 1939. In Britain’s supposedly impregnable naval base of Scapa Flow, the battleship HMS Royal Oak lay at anchor. Under ...

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The German U-boat force maintained a fearsome reputation. But American submariners fought more effectively.

The British ocean liner was torpedoed by the Germans during World War I, killing over one thousand people and changing the ...

In an era of hypersonic missiles, stealth fighters, and nuclear subs, it’s hard to picture sailors going toe-to-toe with the enemy on a ship’s deck. Yet during World War II, the crew of a brand-new ...

Image taken from a video shared on X by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Sunday, October 19, 2025, showing the attack on a speedboat allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea. X: @SecWar The U.S.

The U.K. and Germany will dispatch P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) in the coming months for a joint surveillance mission to track Russian submarines in the North Atlantic, officials ...

KIRYAT GAT, Israel—On the edge of a small city in southern Israel, a cavernous warehouse is being remade into the headquarters of President Trump’s Gaza peace plan. Two hundred U.S. troops working ...

A woman has died a day after the U.S. Coast Guard rescued her and two family members stranded on a remote Massachusetts island that they swam to when their boat went up in flames while anchored in a ...

The Department of Defense (DOD) struck an alleged Tren de Aragua drug boat overnight in the Caribbean Sea, killing six “narco-terrorists,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth revealed Friday morning.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military has conducted its 10th strike on a suspected drug-running boat, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday, blaming the Tren de Aragua gang for operating the ...

A suspected drug that was destroyed in the Caribbean, the Pentagon announced on Oct. 14, 2025. Pentagon image The U.S. military destroyed a suspected drug smuggling vessel in the Caribbean, killing ...