This is the grave of Albert Niblack. Born in Vincennes, Indiana in 1859, Niblack did well as a student and won an appointment to the Naval Academy, where he began in 1876. He graduated in 1880. For the next 25 years, he was basically a...
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This is the grave of Carl Vinson. Born in 1883 in Baldwin County, Georgia, Vinson went to the local schools and then to Georgia Military College. That led him to.
This is the grave of Uriah Levy. Born in 1792 in Philadelphia. Levy came from an old Sephardic Jewish family from Portugal who fled the Inquisition and then headed to.
This is the grave of John Barry. Born in 1745 in Ballysampson, County Wexford, Ireland, Barry was a Catholic. He was treated as a Catholic in 18th century Ireland too. His family was kicked off their land by the landlord and moved to the coast,...
This is the grave of Matthew Perry. Born in 1794 in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, Perry grew up in the world of post-Puritan respectability, with many ancestors being leading early.
In my latest at the Diplomat, I suggest that AirLand Battle is a poor analogy for what the Navy and Air Force are trying to do with AirSea Battle: Rhetorically,.
I've heard of inter-service conflict, but... In 1987, while flying off the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, a Lt. j.g. Timothy W. Dorsey fired a missile at an Air Force F-4 reconnaissance jet piloted by then-Lt. Ross. He and his backseat officer ejected as the F-4 plunged into...
Some thoughts over at the Diplomat on the debate, and on what a Romney administration Navy might look like: However, the Romney campaign has given little indication as to how.
My latest at the Diplomat discussed efforts to make military services play nice with one another: I’ve belabored the organizational aspects of China’s system of anti-access systems because bureaucratic boundaries.
James Holmes asks us to crowdsource a name for China's "it's new to you" aircraft carrier, having correctly noted that "ex-Varyag" is getting old: Our friends in Beijing are evidently having a hard time settling on a name, though. Shi Lang, for a long-ago conqueror of...
Apropos of this story on the reintegration of B-52 into an air-sea framework, some recent research on the book reminded me of how.
From the "We are presenting a united front on Greek auster... wait, France? What the fuck are you doing?" file: German industry and politicians have attacked a proposed French warship.