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I learned from H-Net that there was a lot of thinking in the US about what the post-war Pacific should look like, and some of it began even before the bombs dropped on Pearl Harbor… Of course, P
Two weeks ago I visited USS Olympia, currently preserved a a war memorial in Philadelphia. Olympia displaced 6600 tons and carried four 8″ guns in two twin turrets, fore and aft. Olympia was c
It looks as if RV Petrel has turned up USS Hornet: The research vessel Petrel is perched on a spot in the South Pacific Ocean that was anything but peaceful 77 years ago. Then, it was the scene of a m
Over at the National Interest I do some fast and loose analysis of great powers that decided to build world-competitive navies in the past 130 years or so. Of the four efforts comparable to the deve
Battleships that were never built are one of my very favorite subjects... The Kaiserliche Marine faced twenty-one British super-dreadnoughts and four modern battlecruisers, along with another thirteen
I have a brief post at the Diplomat on some of the latest research about Taiwan’s defunct nuclear program… How close did Taiwan come to developing a nuclear weapons capability? Recent scho
Rarely is the point made with such clarity… Even the staunchest advocate for preserving South Carolina’s civil asset forfeiture powers admits that cops have an incentive to seize people’s pr