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Would the president change the "Department of Defense" back to the "Department of War"? He sounds increasingly serious about ...

On Wednesday, 93-year-old Mel Brown joined dozens of people at the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History in Little ...

The Korean War was bitterly fought on the ground, in the air and on the political front. The U.S. lost more than 36,000, with ...

Early on June 29, 1942, the 8,032-ton British steam tanker HMS Empire Mica cruised east through calm waters toward Key West, Florida, where it planned to join a convoy bound for the United Kingdom.

In the 80 years since World War 2, the United States has seldom been without a military footprint on foreign soil.

Hutchinson, an Army veteran who was deployed to Saudi Arabia in 1990 during the first Gulf War, fatally shot his girlfriend, Renee Flaherty, 32, and her three children, 9-year-old Geoffrey, 7-year ...

Presidential war powers have been a debate since they were enacted in the War Powers Resolution of 1973. Congress has not declared war since World War II.

A submarine that sunk during World War II has been discovered off the Pacific Coast, Russia's Pacific Fleet said Monday. The Malyutka-class submarine went missing during the war in the Peter the ...

President Donald Trump announced plans on Thursday to designate May 8 as World War II "Victory Day" and Nov. 11 as World War I "Victory Day," stating that the U.S. did a lot to win both wars.

The first U-boat to enter the Gulf was U-507, which cruised into the area on April 30, 1942.By May 12, it had sunk five Allied tankers and cargo ships. One of these vessels, the tanker Munger T ...