Analysis: New Zealand is being urged to spend 2% of GDP on defence, but is that possible and would it make a difference?

Military aviators have had their wings clipped – and their hair clippered – after a plan to grow luxuriant mullets was rejected by commanders. Any hopes of developing into the Royal New Zealand Hair ...

A haka was performed by Ukrainian soldiers to honour Dominic Abelen, a New Zealand soldier of Māori descent killed in 2022, ...

The body of an American soldier who died alongside Kiwi Dominic Abelen in Ukraine has been sent home - but Abelen remains in ...

The Battle of Riverhead is over almost before it began — the memorial for fallen Afghanistan veteran Lance Corporal Rory ...

Unexpected Chinese naval activities in the Tasman Sea that forced commercial airlines to divert from possible live fire exercises, have sent top New Zealand and Australian politicians seeking answers ...

New Zealand’s foreign minister says China has agreed to consider concerns that its military did not give enough notice before staging live-fire exercises in the waters between New Zealand and ...

A New Zealand Army soldier has been announced as a semi-finalist for Kiwibank’s 2025 New Zealander of the Year for his role in organising an army of skilled volunteers who provide disaster ...

Implying that war will happen soon, she called on the government to put military “boots on the ground” in Pacific countries—including Samoa (a former NZ colony), Fiji and Tonga—and to ...