After the loss of Bagram air base in Afghanistan, Diego Garcia is a critical lifeline for the American military in the region ...

The Pentagon has sent at least six B-2 bombers – 30% of the US Air Force’s stealth bomber fleet – to the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, in what analysts have called a message to Iran as tensions ...

James Stavridis is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a retired US Navy admiral, former supreme allied commander of NATO, and vice chairman of global affairs at the Carlyle Group. When I was a young Navy ...

As the United States and Iran navigate new opportunities for diplomacy, they do so against the backdrop of both nations having simultaneously escalated their respective military rhetoric, with ...

Just imagine if a 60-strong tropical island chain with the world's largest atoll, a third of the size of the area of all Maldives but far more open to Indian Ocean swells, suddenly appeared on the map ...

The island is named Diego Garcia, the biggest little island in the Indian Ocean's isolated Chagos Archipelago. Never heard of it? Consult the map -- it's south of India and kinda sorta between ...

Members of the Trump administration, on the eve of Prime Minister Starmer’s visit to Washington, are livid over a deal negotiated last year by Sir Keir to transfer Britain’s sovereignty over the ...

The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called ”Footprint of Freedom,” is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos Island chain in the Indian Ocean. It is one of the most important and secretive ...

President-elect Donald Trump will have many agenda items to address when he returns to the Oval Office on Monday. One he should get to quickly, for there is no time to lose, is the future status of ...

Because of Location: The island hosts an American super-strategic airbase (meaning it easily handles heavy bombers and air tankers that can refuel all aircraft), a naval base (a technically elite base ...