By Bruce Stubbs In 2022, Congress established the independent National Commission on the Future of the Navy to conduct two overarching studies, one examining naval force structure and the other focuse...

The bugs, broken apps, and nightmare customer-service bots we can't escape, presented as a blessed and sacred addendum to Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on AI

Naval officers must be prepared to address not just the tactical and material problems of sustained combat, but the limits of human resiliency.

On Apr. 7, 1945, aircraft from the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier task force sank the largest battleship ever built, the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Yamato.

A narrow focus, and a missing perspective

Series editor: Amanda C. Waterhouse, University of Notre Dame   Recent events in and around Venezuela demand more scholarly and public attention to the country’s history and relevant related t…

The mysterious Howe brothers

The Arnold Family of Newport

Framing the war

An anatomy

The answer might surprise you (sorry)

From the cutting-room floor

That one, but also another one.

‘More Prussian than the Prussian’? Battlefield Prisoner Killing by British and Canadian Forces on the Western Front, 1914–1918 - RETRACTION - Volume 3

A blast from the past

From Britain's Perspective

There is an easy answer to the question “How long does it take to write a book?” but it is not a true one. The easy answer is the duration between when you actually start putting your pen down on the ...

Charlton Heston takes on Patrick O'Brian

Part two of my review

A Naval Miscellany

Drawn from the History of the British Navy

The Unbelievable Stephen Maturin

Alan Lester* In recent months the Daily Mail and right wing groups have mounted a clamour for a new memorial to be built in Portsmouth. In principle, the proposal seems reasonable, since it is to c…

Necessity is the mother of learning

What the archives say

A tale of two captains

Inspiration and expertise

From dissolute lieutenants to rich post captains

An occasional series

The story continues

What we've done; what we're doing next; and a bonus letter from 1780.

Some of the great "what-ifs" in British and Irish history

On oaths

From shore to ship

For 15 months, the U.S. Navy fought its fiercest battles since at least the Tanker War. The Navy racked up nearly flawless tactical victories in

To duel or not to duel

Why we turn the page