The island hosts an American super-strategic airbase (meaning it easily handles heavy bombers and air tankers that can refuel ...
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Shifting Sands at Diego Garcia
The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called "Footprint of Freedom," is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos ...
The British surrender of Chagos Islands could allow China to surveil and endanger the British and US aircraft and vessels at ...
The island is named Diego Garcia, the biggest little island in the Indian Ocean's isolated Chagos Archipelago. Never heard of ...
Diego Garcia also serves as a critical base for intelligence monitoring of China’s increasing naval and air operations in the region. The base operates at the highest level of security.
Donald Trump’s secretary of state challenged David Lammy over Britain’s deal to give away the Chagos Islands in their first ...
Sir Keir Starmer sought US president’s blessing for lease that will affect joint military base on Diego Garcia ...
A B-1B Lancer lands after a bomber task force mission at naval station Diego Garcia on the Chagos Islands Credit: US Air Force photo by Staff Sgt Hannah Malone/Alamy Earlier in January ...
President Trump must intervene to prevent this handover, which would damage U.S. national security and ultimately play into China's hands.
The neighbourhood waters could become choppy for India, given the inherent and inherited complexities and also the evolving ...