Navies
The War at Sea, 1701-1714
The Battle of Malaga by Isaac Sailmaker. Oil on canvas, 1704. Less than a week after the Capture of Gibraltar, Admiral George Rooke received intelligence that a French fleet under the command of Toulouse and d’Estrées was approaching Gibraltar. Leaving half his marines to defend the newly won prize, Rooke immediately set off with his combined Anglo-Dutch fleet to engage…
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Shō-Go Plan
The Shō-Go Plan (Short for Shō-Itchi-Go, Operation Victory One) marked the last attempt of the combined Imperial Japanese Navy to defend its empire during the war in the Pacific. Japan’s strategy at the dawn of war in the Pacific had called for the occupation of all areas west of a…
Confederate Navy 1861-65
For all his troubles, Secretary Welles enjoyed major advantages over Secretary Mallory: the North had a functioning naval bureaucracy, a growing number of ships with an officer corps and a pool of mariners adequate to man them, and a large maritime and industrial base upon which to draw. In his…
MODERN NAVAL WARFARE
An MV-22 Osprey maneuvers on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) during test operations March 20, 2012. George H.W. Bush is in the Atlantic Ocean conducting carrier qualifications. This was the first time an MV-22 made a landing on an aircraft carrier.(U.S. Marine…