The island is named Diego Garcia, the biggest little island in the Indian Ocean’s isolated Chagos Archipelago. Never heard of it? Consult the map — it’s south of India and kinda sorta ...

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 ...

Mauritian sovereignty is a concern to the United States as it could result in development of and tourism ... the entirety of Diego Garcia, the principal habitable island in the chain.