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 […] ...

Convinced that the USS Texas' long-term survival relies on getting it out of the water, the historic battleship's advocates are poised to launch a $75 million campaign to place it in dry dock. First, ...

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

If you like warships then you will have a fondness for battleships. It’s impossible not to. Their size, their lines, their massive guns, all give the impression of immense power. You only need to ...

American battleships were a symbol of naval power for decades but became obsolete with the rise of missiles and other ...

During the Cold War, the U.S. developed and adhered to a nuclear deterrence strategy that was dependent upon a nuclear triad. The nuclear triad comprised methods for deploying nuclear weapons from air ...

The USS Illinois was supposed to be the fifth of the U.S. Navy's WWII-era Iowa-class battleships, but it never joined its ...

Struggling to withstand dangerous Nazi attacks on U.S. supply boats, three famous U.S. Navy battleships faced heavy resistance as they closed-in on the German-held Cotentin Peninsula as part of the ...

What You Need to Know: HMS Vanguard, Britain’s last battleship, was laid down in 1941 amid shifting naval tactics favoring aircraft carriers over traditional battleships. Despite being completed in ...