Australia will spend $7 billion on a stockpile ... Conroy warning that the world faced the biggest arms race since World War II. The deal, announced by Conroy overnight in Washington DC and ...

More than 200 servicemen were killed when the U.S.S. Edsall was struck by Japanese dive bombers in March 1942.

Military historian Lynette Silver is discussing what happened to 22 Australian nurses who were marched into the sea at Bangka Island, Indonesia, and shot with machine guns in February 1942.

The Royal Australian Navy announced this week it has discovered the wreckage of the World War II destroyer ... to Australia ...

The acquisition is the latest in a series of measures involving the transformation of Australia and its military ... The reference to 1945, i.e., the end of World War II, underscores that the ...

Under conditions where the Labor government has transformed Australia into a frontline state for a US ... Labor is presiding ...

The wreck of a US aircraft carrier that was sunk during World War Two has been found off the coast of Australia ... show the Lexington's nameplate and guns. Some of the ship's aircraft are ...

Within minutes of President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement of Fox News host and Army veteran Pete Hegseth as his selection ...

For centuries wars are being fought with contemporary weapons and in some instances with future or prototype ones. However some old weapons, older than their current users, are being utilized. The ...

Following Federation in 1901 and continuing until after World War II ended in 1945, promotional material sent to Britain extolled the virtues of Australia as a land of plenty. British men and ...

USS Puffer launched on Nov. 22, 1942, and on Oct. 9, 1943, during its maiden voyage, encountered an escort destroyer leading ...

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is restoring "The Night Watch," a large oil painting by the 17th-century master. Visitors have been given a rare view behind the scenes.