Navy Matters

The Iowa class battleship of WWII had a bit over 1200 16” shells of various types in its magazines.   In addition, it carried several thousa...

Wayne Hughes is one of the foremost proponents of small vessel naval forces and has spoken and written extensively about it.   Before I go a...

We’ve talked, in general terms, about ship armor (see, “Armor Compendium” ) and have acknowledged that it was a grave mistake to have abando...

By now, you’ve undoubtedly heard all about the recent massive leak of US military documents.   On the off chance that you haven’t, here’s a ...

Well, that post certainly didn’t go well.   Few people were able to grasp the ‘what if’ nature of the premise.   So, instead, I’ll offer my ...

A reader recently posed a ‘what if’ type of scenario in which aviation had never attained ascendency in the Navy.   Inspired by that, I’d li...

We’ve all heard this adage,   Train the way you fight, fight the way you train.   Truer words could not be spoken and yet we ignore them.   ...