By Ted Edwards
This book’s odd title arose from the fact that its subject, US Navy fighter pilot Stanley Vejtasa, among his ..
Tag: history
Inevitably, Canadian foreign policy scholars are either asked, or feel compelled, to write about the Arctic. More often than not, their writings include the nebulous topi ..
By William N. Still Jr.
From the end of the Civil War until its belated entry into World War I, the United States Navy was generally regarded ..
By Adrien Fontanellaz and Tom Cooper
One of the nastiest “small” wars of the twentieth century, the Sri Lankan Civil War ..
The age of battleships laying broadsides into beaches may have been over when the USS Iowa was decommissioned, but the increasing threat of anti-ship missiles and A2/AD m ..
By Robert Seager II
As far as the United States Navy is concerned, Mahan is right up there with Sun Tzu, Machiavelli and von ..
I actually wanted to be a pilot – just like my grandfather, who had a strong influence on me when I was a small boy. According to family legend, he built an airplane hi ..
By Ken Brown
To the wider world, America appeared clueless during its own “Phoney war” from 1939 until it fully e ..
For almost 75 years, the stern of the destroyer USS Abner Read lay somewhere below the dark surface of the Bering Sea off the Aleutian island of Kiska, where it ..
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