Timelines

A Timeline of the 2024 Sabina Shoal Standoff

September 9, 2024 4:19 PM - Updated: September 10, 2024 7:19 AM

Sabina Shoal, known to the Philippines as Escoda and by China as Xianbin Jiao, is the latest flashpoint in the South China Sea between Manila and Beijing. Located 75 nautical miles from the Philippine province of Palawan, the standoff at…

USNI News Timeline: Conflict in the Red Sea

February 5, 2024 6:33 PM - Updated: April 1, 2025 5:25 PM

Timeline: Theodore Roosevelt COVID-19 Outbreak Investigation

June 23, 2020 8:48 AM - Updated: June 23, 2020 10:47 AM

Timeline: A Brief History of North Korea’s Nuclear Weapon Development

September 1, 2017 2:29 PM - Updated: September 5, 2017 7:41 PM

The following is a brief outline of the history of the development of nuclear weapons by North Korean regime.…

Timeline: USS Fitzgerald Collision

August 18, 2017 2:46 PM

The following are a timeline of the events surrounding the collision of USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) and ACX Crystal on June 17, 2017.…

UPDATED: A Brief History of U.S. Freedom of Navigation Operations in the South China Sea

May 29, 2017 11:11 AM - Updated: July 2, 2017 8:53 AM

Over the past three years, the U.S. and China have been at odds over the status of Chinese artificial islands…

Timeline: The ‘Fat Leonard’ Case

March 16, 2017 8:41 AM - Updated: March 16, 2017 1:54 PM

The scandal embroiling Leonard “Fat Leonard” Francis’s company, Glenn Marine Defense Asia and several high-ranking U.S. Navy officers outlined in the…