Although footage and pictures of these buildings show that they were built and used by the US military, they have been repurposed to the point that this once-secret military complex became a tiny ...

Samuel Paparo, joined other military officials in calling for a revival of a base on Adak Island, a tiny, rocky outpost in Alaska’s Aleutian Island chain. The island, which sits halfway between ...

The last of Hitler’s army to surrender were stationed in a desolate arctic wasteland—a key vantage point in the little-known ...

Fort Wainwright's mission is to deploy combat ready forces to support joint military operations worldwide and serve as the Joint Force Land Component Command to support Joint Task Force Alaska.

The U.S. military conducts missile warning, missile defense and space surveillance missions from the base. According to Bouffard, the U.S. maintains significant defense capabilities in Alaska to ...

Six Russian military aircraft were tracked operating in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone for about 2 1/2 hours ...

A decommissioned naval base in Adak is receiving attention, as Senator Dan Sullivan says there is interest in reopening it.

In June 1942, Japan’s invasion of the Aleutian islands in Alaska prompted ... The U.S. military eventually abandoned its Air Force and Army bases, leaving the land polluted with toxic chemicals ...