Outnumbered and outgunned during the fierce naval skirmish off Calabria, HMS Warspite’s crew targeted the Italian flagship ...

Although battleships were supplanted by aircraft carriers by the end of World War II, they remain a testament to a bygone era of warfare—and a symbol of their nations’ might.

Authorised under the 1940 “Two Ocean Navy” building program and funded in the fiscal year of 1941, the U.S. Navy’s ...

A former Navy secretary tells of how he helped shape our Navy into the fighting force it is today, and about its beginnings ...

World War II veteran John "Jack" Cowell celebrated his 101st birthday on Tuesday by saluting his comrades in arms. Literally.

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An excerpt from ‘The Forgotten Indian Prisoners of World War II: Surrender, Loyalty, Betrayal and Hell’, by Gautam Hazarika.

By Steven Wills, Defense Opinion Writer. What’s old is new again. The possibility of resurrecting battleships as a potent symbol of naval power is back as a popular topic of discussion in […] ...

Plans are underway to honor a World War II soldier whose remains have been identified more than 80 years after he went ...

The first USS Utah was lost in the attack on Pearl Harbor, and no other ship was named for the Copper State until Saturday’s ...

The Trump administration quietly authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela, granting the agency lethal authority as part of an escalating campaign to oust President Nicolás Maduro.

The U.S.S. Edsall’s 2023 discovery at the bottom of the Indian Ocean is reviving the tale of the ship the Japanese forces ...