Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Airport runway at Adak Island with the Great Sitkin volcano in the background. An isolated Navy station known for brutal Alaskan ...

A key U.S. military commander told state and federal officials last month that he would be interested in expanding military access on Adak Island in the western Aleutians. The word came during a ...

Adak Island, midway in the Aleutian Island chain and bordered by the Bering Sea to the north and the North Pacific Ocean to the south, is closer to Russia than mainland Alaska. The island best known ...

Officials with the U.S. Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) told state and federal officials last month that they would be interested in expanding military access ...

Several panels and workshops touched on key elements of Alaska’s strategic importance in national security at the two-day Alaska Defense Forum in Fairbanks, including how federal, state and local ...

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