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There has been rabid debate over the last few years about the power-projection capabilities of aircraft carriers. Should they be retired? The last “battleship...
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There has been rabid debate over the last few years about the power-projection capabilities of aircraft carriers. Should they be retired? The last “battleship...
USS Gerald R. Ford Preparing for Maiden Deployment as Spare Parts Are Now Available: The United States Navy’s first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R....
Battleship Iowa CEO Has Received U.S. Navy’s Most Prestigious Civilian Award: Since 2012, the USS Iowa (BB-61), the lead ship of the United States...
Earlier this month War on the Rocks carried an interview with General David Berger, commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. The interview was mostly...
A Second Korean War Could Be a Naval War Like No Other in Decades – Back just last year, two of South Korea’s largest shipbuilders...
The Cruiser Submarine: A Great Idea in Theory Only – Submarines showed early in their existence that they could have an outsize impact in major...
Cargo Containers into Aircraft Carriers? The Royal Navy in 1982 faced a galling problem as it prepared to take back the Falkland Islands from Argentinian...
Operation Crossroads: A 5 Minute History – While burrowing through the vast Manhattan Project archives historian Alex Wellerstein turned up evidence that Bikini wasn’t the first Pacific...
The lead ship of a new class of three 32,000-ton battleships, USS New Mexico had been completed at the end of the First World...
Three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 10, 1941 the battleship era truly ended. All eight of the U.S. Navy’s battleships...