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Dec 31, 2024 | 
usni.org | Andrew Blackley |BJ Armstrong
CDR Benjamin "BJ" Armstrong, USN, is a former search and rescue helicopter pilot and associate professor of war studies and naval history at the U.S. Naval Academy. He is the author or editor of four books and several dozen articles on naval history and strategy, and the recipient of the Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement and the Lyman Book Award from the North American Society of Oceanic History.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
usni.org | Andrew Blackley |BJ Armstrong
What do you do if you find yourself with four twin-14-inch battleship turret assemblies and no place to use them? Call on Winston Churchill, of course. That was the position in which the president of Bethlehem Steel, Charles M. Schwab (no relation to the famous brokerage house), found himself in fall 1914. He was under contract to furnish armor plate and the guns to complete the Greek battlecruiser Salamis that was being built by the AG Vulcan Works of Hamburg, Germany.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
usni.org | J. M. Caiella |Andrew Blackley |Eric L. Mills |Martin J. Bollinger
By Admiral Worth H. Bagley, U.S. Navy (Retired), and Admiral Harold E. Shear, U.S. Navy (Retired) December 2024 Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr. served as an innovative Chief of Naval Operations from 1970 to 1974. His actions elicited praise on one hand and criticism on the other.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
usni.org | Andrew Blackley |Philip K Allan
The Pastry War, a brief conflict between France and Mexico from November 1838 to March 1839, was so named because it was triggered by the ill-treatment of French citizens, one of them a pastry chef. A French squadron was dispatched to blockade the Caribbean coast of the newly established Mexican Republic and to capture the port of Vera Cruz.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
usni.org | BJ Armstrong |Andrew Blackley |J. M. Caiella
Commodore George Dewey defeated a Spanish squadron at Manila Bay in May 1898, early in the Spanish-American War. A few months later, U.S. Army forces under Major General Elwell S. Otis took control of the Philippine city. Most of the Spanish squadron had been sunk by the American Asiatic Squadron or scuttled in the battle’s closing moments as Spaniards abandoned ship.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
usni.org | Andrew Blackley |BJ Armstrong |J. M. Caiella
She is a double-elliptical, high-uffen-buffen, double turreted, back acting, submarine War junk. . . . She is about the shape of a sweet potato that has burst in the boiling. She draws fourteen feet of mud forward, 16’-6” of slime aft, and has three feet of discolored water over the main deck in fair weather.” That is how Lieutenant William S.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
usni.org | J. M. Caiella |Andrew Blackley |Eric L. Mills |Jeff Vandenengel
Ed Offley was named the 2023 Naval History Author of the Year at the 151st Annual Meeting of the U.S. Naval Institute in Annapolis, Maryland, on 8 May. Fifteen years before the Vought F4U Corsair cemented its name in history over the Pacific Ocean in World War II, the original Corsair earned its own significant place in the ... The “Cradle of the Confederacy” was always going to be a tough nut to crack, but for Rear Admiral John Dahlgren, losing one chief of staff after another made matters ...
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
usni.org | Philip K Allan |Andrew Blackley
Naval warfare during the Industrial Age was heavily influenced by rapid cycles of technological change and weapon innovation, which led in turn to the development of ever larger warships carrying better armor and more powerful guns. Such vessels, however, were enormously expensive to build and maintain. The Jeune École arose as a response by nations unwilling or unable to invest in an expensive blue-water navy. One of its strongest proponents was French Admiral Théophile Aube.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
usni.org | Andrew Blackley
The young naval officer stood on the platform at the Weymouth train station as the 1620 train from Paddington arrived in a cloud of steam and smoke. He had been careful not to spoil his dress uniform during the 20-minute trip from Portland Harbor on board the admiral’s steam pinnace.
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Jan 1, 2024 | 
usni.org | J. M. Caiella |Norman Polmar |Andrew Blackley |James Delgado
In this issue we run the gamut from John Paul Jones storming across the deck of the Bonhomme Richard to the birth of the nuclear Navy. The importance of history was evident in the seminar on critical thinking held by the U.S. Naval Institute and U.S. Naval Academy at the Jack C. Taylor Conference Center in ...
