Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Key Points and Summary – In November 1940, Britain’s Royal Navy used HMS Illustrious to launch a night raid on Italy’s fleet at Taranto,...
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Key Points and Summary – In November 1940, Britain’s Royal Navy used HMS Illustrious to launch a night raid on Italy’s fleet at Taranto,...
Key Points and Summary – Pearl Harbor has a second, forgotten catastrophe. On May 21, 1944, West Loch—packed with LSTs loaded for the Saipan...
Key Points and Summary – Eighty-three years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy has completed a delicate salvage effort to protect...
Key Points and Summary – The Navy is linking Pearl Harbor history to today’s undersea fight by naming a new Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS...
Key Points and Summary – In the wake of Pearl Harbor, Washington sought more than battlefield victories—it wanted the man behind the attack. -That...
In the wake of Israel’s first rounds of its preemptive military strike on Iran’s nuclear program, aptly named “Operation Rising Lion,” commentators rushed to...
Key Points – The USS Pennsylvania (BB-38), lead ship of its class of super-dreadnought battleships, was commissioned in 1916. -Though missing combat in World...
Imperial Japan guessed poorly at Pearl Harbor. It misjudged the impact of its actions on a peacetime strategic competitor, made a foe of that...
Key Points: China could potentially launch a “modern-day Pearl Harbor” by targeting key U.S. bases in East Asia—Guam, Okinawa, and South Korea—with a barrage...
Today the USS Arizona memorial serves to honor the 1,177 men who perished onboard during and following the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor,...