President Trump’s plan for new American battleships appears to be going for a “bigger-is-better” mantra — perhaps a nod to the commander-in-chief whose name they will carry. The Trump-class vessels ...

The Navy on Monday rolled out a 30-year plan to bolster American dominance at sea, focusing on rebuilding a stagnant ...

U.S. Navy planners in the Pacific, still overestimating the value of battleships, could have been less daring in their absence and fought a holding action until late 1942 or 1943. Had things been ...

For years, Washington talked about “deterrence” while quietly accepting decline. Presidents came and went, defense strategies were rebranded, and yet America’s shipyards rusted, our fleet aged, and ...

At first glance, Ingo Bauernfeind’s book on American battleships appears to join the great works by Siegfried Breyer and Garze and Dulin, but this new volume from Casemate offers both more and less.