The U.S. Navy can learn much from the Russo-Japanese War—and from dueling interpretations of that conflict by naval theorists Alfred Thayer Mahan and Julian S. Corbett. Foreign observers are ...

Once the mighty and highly visible “big hammer” of the US Navy, the big battleships that were brought out of mothballs and ...

Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series covering the Pacific War week by week continues. The Imperial Japanese Navy shocked the world when it consolidated most of its aircraft ...

Launched in 1940 and commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), the battleship Yamato ... against the purportedly superior Russian Navy fleet, sending those iconic Russian battleships ...

At the flight's end, Japan questioned wither the celebrated capabilities would be used beneficently or destructively. The ...

A strategy of denial is now the cornerstone concept for Australia’s National Defence Strategy. The term’s use as an ...

Swenson. He would be transferred from the Swenson by “breeches buoy” to the Bennington, which had lost a helldiver, pilot and crewmember March 17 while attacking IJN Yamato in Kure Harbor.

According to the U.S. Naval Institute, Rear Admiral Toshiyuki Yokoi, a former Imperial Japanese Navy officer ... great enough to penetrate the decks of fleet carriers or battleships and cause ...

a type of a naval vessel used to escort a fleet to detect and destroy enemy submarines. Katsumi Kawazoe, who served in the Imperial Japanese Navy as a lieutenant and captained the No. 50 submarine ...