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Here’s a thought experiment: would America build the U.S. Navy currently plying the seven seas if it were starting from scratch? Color me skeptical....
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Here’s a thought experiment: would America build the U.S. Navy currently plying the seven seas if it were starting from scratch? Color me skeptical....
A devil’s advocate is a precious commodity. That has to be one of the takeaways from revisiting the Battle of Midway more than seven...
The United States has decided to spend many billions of dollars on the CVN-78 (“Ford”) class of aircraft carriers to replace the venerable Nimitz class. The latter has...
According to some evaluations, today’s cutting-edge submarines like the Virginia– and Sea Wolf-class attack submarines have been evaluated to run only five decibels louder...
A series of collisions involving U.S. Navy destroyers in 2016 and 2017—including two incidents that left sixteen sailors dead—have raised questions as to why the...
The USS North Carolina-class was part of the U.S. Navy’s pre-World War II efforts to create a new class of “fast battleships,” which were...
Armies and navies began taking advantage of lighter-than-air craft during the nineteenth century. In the Italo-Turkish War of 1911, the first heavier-than-air craft began...
There’s a mystique to battleships. Whenever inside-the-Beltway dwellers debate how to bulk up the U.S. Navy fleet, odds are sentimentalists will clamor to return...
The United States Navy’s submarine fleet is the world’s most capable fleet of undersea military vessels, as well as one of the world’s safest....
Is it time to bring back the battleship? For decades, naval architects have concentrated on building ships that, by the standards of the World...