Ancient peoples battled to master the sea. The earliest warships on record date back to Egyptian civilization. Ancient mariners took to the Nile River in boats constructed of lashed reeds and coated ...

February 17, 1864, was a spot in naval warfare history when the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley struck and sank the USS Housatonic, the first successful attack by a military submarine against an ...

The drive to explore is one of the most potent human urges. Finding out what's just around the next bend has been a prerogative of humanity since the earliest hunters and gatherers. As long as there ...

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The USS Hornet — an aircraft carrier that saw service in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, ...

While much of World War II is remembered as taking place on land or in the sky, the battles in the water were just as important. Protecting shipping lanes, troops, and supplies was all necessary over ...

Brent is a Senior Research Fellow for Naval Warfare and Advanced Technology in the Allison Center for National Security. A 2023 naval act, as it did in 1938, can grow the nation’s naval shipbuilding ...

The Battle of Leyte Gulf holds important lessons for a hypothetical China-U.S. naval clash – and Chinese strategists know it. An explosion on the USS St. Lo (CVE-63) after she was hit by a kamikaze ...