Ten years ago, drones were a novelty, out of reach for the technically or financially inept. They were in an embryo stage and only the tech-savvy could build one. These d ..
Tag: history
Maritime history is continually being refined and revised as new discoveries are made and conventional wisdom and self-perpetuating myths are found to be wrong. This book ..
Late in 2022—a year of war, pandemic, climatic disaster, and attempted nuclear coercion—a number of news outlets published a photograph of a rare event. True, the pho ..
Vice Admiral William Joseph Houston is a thoughtful and experienced United States naval officer, entrusted with command of perhaps the most potent US capability: its subm ..
This all started in 1959 when a twenty-six-year-old who was studying for his PhD in archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania was asked if he would like to direct the ..
This episode started off with an atomic bang and ended in a whisper. But before the atomic explosion occurred, our fisheries research vessel Charles H. Gilbert had some u ..
At the end of last year, Japan’s National Institute for Defense Studies released the 2023 edition of its annual China security report, which focuses on China’s quest ..
This is a big, beautifully produced “coffee table book” that is in reality much more than just pretty pictures, although it contains many of those. It is also ..
As always, retired English judge Quintin Barry has meticulously researched his subject. In this case, it is the rapid development of Britain’s Royal Navy in the tumultu ..
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