USS Nevada (BB-36) was America's first modern battleship. When her keel was laid in 1912, kings and emperors still ruled much of the world. When she finally slipped beneath the waves in 1948, America
The Mediterranean Fleet entered the 1930s looking back to the lessons of Jutland and the First World War but also seeking to incorporate new technologies, notably air power. Unfortunately in the depre
Rentfrow, a former naval flight officer who teaches US and naval history, traces the transformation of the US Navy into a fighting organization between 1874 and 1897, using the North Atlantic Station
Presents an approach to determine what parties have authority to issue interoperability policy, the legal and policy origins and implementation paths of the authority, and the scope of that authority,
"In 1968, a small, dilapidated American spy ship set out on a dangerous mission: to pinpoint military radar stations along the coast of North Korea. Packed with advanced electronic-surveillance equipm
The brain of a modern warship is its combat information center (CIC). Information about friendly and enemy forces pours into this nerve center, informing command decisions about firing, maneuvering, a
Examines contracting alternatives for the full deployment phase of the U.S. Navy’s Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) system, which is intended to give the Navy a common set
When war broke out in 1812, neither the United States Navy nor the Royal Navy had more than a token force on the Great Lakes. However, once the shooting started, it sparked a ship-building arms race t
This is the first biography of Captain Robert Ryder V.C., Royal Navy (1908-1986), one of the greatest naval heroes of the Second World War. Ryder led the audacious raid on St Nazaire in March 1942 whi
Halpern (emeritus, Florida State U.) assembles published and unpublished documents to tell the story of the British Navy in the Mediterranean Sea during the decade after World War I, a period he says
This history of the officer corps of the Royal Navy examines the transitional period between the last decades of the nineteenth century and the start of World War I, focusing on policy changes, social
When the HMS Dreadnought first entered British naval service in 1906, she was by no means the first to bear that name, but in recognition of the technological revolution the ship represented and its i
