A "cloaking device" that makes things invisible, the effect of a depleting ozone layer on the prevailing wind and just how birds tell the time before migrating.

Veterans returning to battlegrounds in Egypt for a 70th anniversary next week have been promised business-class quality flights and silver service.

If ever refugees deserved to be welcomed to New Zealand it is the Afghans who have been acting as interpreters for our soldiers in their country.

An armed military man found dead at Linton Camp had recently separated from his partner and mother of his two children.

Private Michael Victor Ross, 29, from Kaitaia, has not been seen since he fell overboard from an inflatable boat while returning from a training exercise in a lake.

New Zealand has been allocated 2000 of the 10,000 places available for the 2015 dawn service at Gallipoli - guess which country gets the rest?

The last batch of soldiers has left for Afghanistan, bracing themselves for attacks from insurgents desperate to win the propaganda war before NZ pulls out for good.

Rhys Jones reflects on our armed forces embarking on an ambitious reform programme, reflecting the strategic direction set in the white paper of 2010.

The SAS is being re-deployed to Afghanistan to send a message to the killers of five NZ soldiers and lead patrols against the Taleban, a defence analyst has suggested.

Robert Ayson says the good news is that we are being courted by Washington and Beijing at the same time. But is the attention needed?

It has taken 29 months - but the full report into the fatal Anzac Day crash is about to be made widely available to the public.