26 January 2019 Zumwalt-Class Destroyers The Gulf War of 1990-91 saw the last deployment of our vaunted WWII-era battleships—in naval gunfire support for ground operations ashore. By then, the cost of maintaining our battleship fleet had become prohibitive. Yet Congress was keen Read More
9 JUNE 1942 CONTROVERSIAL SILVER STAR This dawn saw eleven Army Air Corps Martin B-26 Marauder bombers of the Army Air Corps 22nd Bomb Group waiting on the runway at Port Moresby, New Guinea. They were one of three squadrons on Read More
11 MARCH 1948 KEY WEST CONFERENCE The years following the end of WWII were tumultuous for the US military. The atomic bomb that ended that war fundamentally changed strategic thinking. Why bother with conventional forces when the answer to world conflict Read More