1, p. 18. 9. For Fisher’s thoughts on the “suddenness” of modern naval warfare’s requiring “an instant readiness for war,” see Fisher Papers, vol. 1, pp. 16–27, and also a letter to Lord Selborne ...

Throughout history, the nations of the world have built and sent massive fleets to do battle with one another to take control of swathes of the oceans. Though confined to vessels, naval battles ...

Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1975), pp. 310–35. 2. William McCarty Little, “The Strategic War Game or Chart Maneuver,” U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings ...

This is the story of the last naval battle of World War II ... sail-powered ships that between them were outfitted with more modern weapons: a 50 caliber and 30 caliber machine gun, two bazookas ...

the limited fleet size prevents Seawolf-class submarines from fulfilling their intended role as a game-changer in modern naval warfare. But with the end of the Cold War came several changes to ...

Roosevelt's enthusiastic support for intervention--he once said, "I should welcome almost any war, for I think this ... that the United States needed a modern navy to protect its growing interests ...

Wooden ships gave way to ironclads, and sail to steam. When in the year before the Great War a naval arms race broke out, it ...

the following communication was received from the rebel Executive, in response to the resolution of Mr. LYONS calling for the report of the naval battle in Hampton Roads. It may be proper to say ...

The Americans also lead the world in submarine warfare with a current force of 51 nuclear attack submarines and fourteen SSBNs or nuclear powered ballistic missile carrying subs. Eventually there will ...

What makes a ship great? For decades, the world’s great powers built countless battleships, not only as a way to win the modern naval battles of the time, but to ...

In 1916, the Battle of Jutland saw the war’s largest naval battle as the navies of Britain and Germany fought for control of the North Sea. Meanwhile, below the waves, German submarines sought ...