With a thunderous bang, a Navy F/A-18 slammed onto the deck of the USS Carl Vinson on Feb. 16, snagging a steel wire with its tailhook to complete a “trap,” the Navy’s term for a safe landing on the ...

The real shift in the Pacific is not a single missile. It is the growing ability to make an aircraft carrier operate from farther away, launch fewer sorties, and arrive later to the fight. That logic ...