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Nelson at Trafalgar: He Did His Duty Horatio Nelson's two-column charge into the Franco-Spanish line was risky, but it won him the battle -- at the cost of his life.   |
AskMen.com
Aaron Broverman |
Top 10: Warships The warships on our top 10 list either helped define a country's naval superiority over another or they meant a technological milestone in the very way modern wars are fought. |
Military History Quarterly
Thomas Fleming |
Old Hickory's Finest Hour In January 1815, General Andrew Jackson led a menagerie of American defenders against some of the British Empire's finest soldiers in a battle that would determine the future of America. |
Parameters
Spring 2006 |
From the Archives Valuing Innovation Where You Find It: This story, drawing on the British Navy's conversion from sail to steam, may resonate across both centuries and service lines. |
National Defense
March 2012
Eric Beidel |
Navy Leaders Want a More Flexible Fleet After fighting two land wars for a decade, the military is putting an emphasis back on the sea and is shifting its focus to the Asia-Pacific region and to a more maritime-weighted mission in the Middle East. |
National Defense
August 2007
Sandra I. Erwin |
Inefficient Shipbuilding Jeopardizes Navy's Expansion Goals The Navy owns 277 ships, but somehow manages to keep 551 different engines in its inventory. Such inefficients partly explain why the cost of buying and maintaining ships has spiraled out of control. |
National Defense
November 2005
Harold Kennedy |
Navy's High-Speed Vessel Aids Relief Effort The HSV-2 Swift may be a forerunner of a next-generation fleet of fast, shallow-draft American-built transports capable of operating close along the shorelines of the world's hot spots. |
National Defense
May 2008
Grace Jean |
New Ships are Breaking The Bank So the Navy is Fixing its Old Ones The ballooning costs of new ships are forcing the Navy to extend the service life of dozens of surface combatants that typically would have been decommissioned. |
National Defense
December 2005
Grace Jean |
Navy Must Close Budget Gap To Build Future Fleet Amid budget constraints and rising shipbuilding costs, the Navy faces a significant challenge in building its future force, according to naval analysts. |
National Defense
March 2006
Sandra I. Erwin |
Navy Seeks to Avert Precipitous Decline in the Size of the Fleet An ambitious Navy plan to expand the size of the fleet not only assumes a considerable surge in spending, but also a fundamental shift in the preparation and execution of ship programs, senior officials say. |
National Defense
March 2009
Grace V. Jean |
Greater Demand for 'Soft Power' Reveals Shortfalls in The Navy They seek naval expertise in nontraditional missions such as training foreign navies to protect their coastlines. |
National Defense
June 2004
Sandra I. Erwin |
Shipbuilders Should Worry About Second-Hand Ship Supply, Study Says As more nations continue to downsize their navies, experts predict that surplus ships will inundate the world market, likely at the expense of new ship construction. |
National Defense
October 2015
Ray Mabus |
The Real Numbers Behind Today's Fleet What should Americans conclude when they hear conflicting claims about the U.S. Navy being too large or shrinking too much? |
