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Close Air Support: The Pioneering Years

November 19, 2012 3:24 PM - Updated: February 5, 2013 9:36 PM
Naval History, December 2012 Marine aviators’ commitment to deliver support to ground forces—a tactic once deemed too dangerous—grew into a…

World Naval Developments: Nationalism Unleashed

November 16, 2012 3:21 PM - Updated: February 5, 2013 3:37 PM
Proceedings, November 2012 A simmering dispute over some uninhabited islands south of Japan offers insight into the way domestic politics…

History of the USS Enterprise

November 6, 2012 2:37 PM - Updated: March 16, 2017 7:58 PM
On Sunday USS Enterprise, the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, arrived at Naval Station Norfolk, Va. after its final deployment.…

Timeline of the Polaris Missile

October 31, 2012 12:33 PM - Updated: February 5, 2013 3:10 PM
On late October 1963, USS Andrew Jackson launched first Polaris A-3 missile from a submerged submarine, off Cape Canaveral, Florida.…

Romney’s Navy Plan

October 12, 2012 11:36 AM - Updated: February 5, 2013 2:51 PM
This week in a speech in Virginia, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney talked about his plan to build a 350-ship…

Combat Fleets: China Update

October 8, 2012 11:23 AM - Updated: February 5, 2013 3:38 PM
The ever-growing reach of China’s navy was demonstrated recently when two of its warships sailed through the Turkish Straits and…

The Unmanned Iranian Revolution

October 4, 2012 11:18 AM - Updated: February 28, 2013 7:05 PM
In an apparent reaction to the recently concluded multinational minesweeping exercise in the Persian Gulf and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s…