The horrendous American Civil War, which cost the lives of more than 600,000 Americans, was mostly a land war. Many Americanos, even those who’ve never studied history, are at least somewhat familiar ...

THE greatest battle in the history of naval warfare, which destroyed the Japanese fleet and swept clear the sea roads to the Philippines and Tokyo, raged across 500,000 square miles of churned and ...

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Eighty years ago this weekend, the U.S. Navy ambushed the Japanese fleet at the Battle of Midway and altered the course of World War II. Saturday night, aboard the USS Midway Museum in San Diego — a ...

Associated Press Smoke billows from the USS Yorktown and bursts from anti-aircraft fire fill the air after a Japanese bomber hit the aircraft carrier in the Battle of Midway near Midway Islands during ...

Jim Holmes’ recent “Top Five Naval Battles of All Time” reminds us of what fun we can have handicapping history. But “Pick your Decisive Battles” can also be a mordant game. My Naval War College ...

“I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.” -- Gilbert & Sullivan, The Pirates of Penzance (1879) In 1851, Victorian historian, ...