Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz believed leadership meant choosing capable people, giving them resources and resisting the urge to micromanage. From Midway to Guadalcanal...
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Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz believed leadership meant choosing capable people, giving them resources and resisting the urge to micromanage. From Midway to Guadalcanal...
The Iowa class was designed for a fight that never arrived. Four ships, 36 sixteen-inch guns, 33 knots to run down Japan's fast capital...
Before Yamato had even entered service, Japan was studying its successor. Design A-150, later nicknamed the Super Yamato, was to carry six 51-centimeter guns,...
The story of Hiroo Onoda is a classic explainer in the psychological extremes of military devotion. His legacy remains a subject of intense debate,...
Summary and Key Points: The Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano, converted from a Yamato-class battleship after Japan’s Midway losses, became the largest carrier built in...
Key Points You Need to Know: Battleships once defined naval power, but not all lived up to their reputations. -The Japanese IJN Fusō suffered...
Imperial Japan guessed poorly at Pearl Harbor. It misjudged the impact of its actions on a peacetime strategic competitor, made a foe of that...
Back in the day, Imperial Japan had quite a fierce war machine, and this was especially true of its warplanes. With that in mind,...
Operation Ten Go, the final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to affect the outcome of the Pacific War, is well known for featuring...
In the annals of United States Naval history, Vice Admiral Willis Augustus Lee Jr. (May 11, 1888 – August 25, 1945) is a relatively...