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 ...

The island hosts an American super-strategic airbase (meaning it easily handles heavy bombers and air tankers that can refuel ...

The British surrender of Chagos Islands could allow China to surveil and endanger the British and US aircraft and vessels at the Diego Garcia military base, according to a former Royal Navy commander ...

Tiny Diego Garcia is the Indian Ocean’s rough Hawaii ... heavy bombers and air tankers that can refuel all aircraft), a naval base (a technically elite base that can re-arm nuclear subs and ...