Sunday Book Review: Billy Mitchell’s War with the Navy
Why, in the wake of World War I, did the relationship between the US Army Air Service and the US Navy go so bad so quickly? Thomas Wildenberg’s Billy Mitchell’s War with the Navy: The Interwar Rivalry...
View ArticleBattleships!
“Japanese battleship Nagato” by IJN – The Maru Special No. 29 “Japanese Submarine Tenders and Auxiliary Submarine Tenders”. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons – As occasionally hinted...
View ArticleHistory of the Battleship
This is extremely well done. In the late Sixties, Milton Bradley created the game Battleship, which introduced the catch phrase “You sank my battleship” to the general public. It is still the shortest...
View ArticleThe Battleship Book
By the author of Grounded: The Case for Abolishing the United States Air Force. From the moment when the launching of HMS Dreadnought made every capital ship in the world obsolete overnight, we have...
View ArticleThe Battleship Book
As hinted on Saturday, The Battleship Book has become a reality. The book, which includes chapters on sixty-two battleships, plus several “interludes” and sidebars, stems largely from the Sunday...
View ArticleBetter Know a Brazilian: João Cândido Felisberto
This is a guest post by Dr. Colin Snider, who also blogs at Americas South and North. João Cândido Felisberto remains one of the more overlooked figures in one of the more overlooked periods of...
View ArticleThe Cubs Must Not Win (III)
When the Cubs last won the World Series, the Ottomans ruled Turkey and much of the Middle East: The House of Osman began as one of many small noble families that ruled the Turkic peoples during their...
View ArticleLady Lex
USS Lexington, early morning of May 8, 1942. Paul Allen has found Lady Lex. I profiled USS Lexington as part of the Sunday Battleship Blogging series way back in 2006; here’s a piece at the Diplomat...
View ArticleSunday Cruiser Blogging: USS Olympia
USS Olympia, Battle of Manila. By Murat Halstead – Our Country in War by Murat Halstead (1898). Two weeks ago I visited USS Olympia, currently preserved a a war memorial in Philadelphia. Olympia...
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