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Churchill called capital ships eggshells smiting one another with hammers, and Jutland, Pearl Harbor, and the Yamato proved him right. The Iowa-class battleships answered...
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Churchill called capital ships eggshells smiting one another with hammers, and Jutland, Pearl Harbor, and the Yamato proved him right. The Iowa-class battleships answered...
An Iowa-class battleship carried about 3,000 officers and sailors in the Second World War and still needed nearly 1,600 after 1980s modernization — a...
Dr. James Holmes, the last gunnery officer to fire a battleship's guns in anger, recalls USS Wisconsin's 1988 return from mothballs: parts scavenged from...
The logic of the capital ship is impeccable. The impediments are daunting for the Trump-class. The Congressional Budget Office puts each hull at $18...
Tehran treats the Strait of Hormuz as non-negotiable, Holmes writes, and no air campaign eliminates every missile. That leaves four courses: walk away and...
The U.S. Air Force has quietly outfitted the B-2 Spirit to carry the Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile, reportedly up to 16 of them. It is...
The Iran war was as close to a pure air campaign as America has fought, and James Holmes — who holds the J.C. Wylie...
The sinking of the IRIS Dena on March 4, 2026, by a U.S. nuclear-powered attack submarine is more than a tactical footnote in Operation...
Lurkers in the wretched hive of scum and villainy—the Chinas, Russias, and North Koreas of the world—are channeling Abraham Lincoln. During the American Civil...
Imperial Japan guessed poorly at Pearl Harbor. It misjudged the impact of its actions on a peacetime strategic competitor, made a foe of that...