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 Houthis never sank an American warship. What they did instead was make the Navy pay to stay afloat. On one Red Sea deployment...
Eight months and 46,500 miles from home, USS Enterprise missed the dredged channel into Naval Air Station Alameda and drove onto a mud bar...
On November 2, 1985, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier struck Bishop Rock at Cortes Bank, about a hundred miles from San Diego. Contemporary...
The final bill for the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier now runs to about $1.3 billion — $902 million to inactivate her, $111 million to...
The Navy meant to deactivate USS Nimitz in May 2026. She is staying until March 2027, at 51 years old, because the ship meant...
Five retired U.S. aircraft carriers became famous for one-cent disposal contracts. The penny was not a valuation of the ship. It reflected an arrangement...
The Battle of the Coral Sea ended on May 8, 1942, the first naval engagement in which the opposing fleets never sighted one another....
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...
Long-range missiles, satellites and drones have made U.S. aircraft carriers more vulnerable than ever. Yet moving carriers remain hard to target, their strike groups...