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The Doolittle Raid – 70 Years Later: Naval Officers and Planning

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Here and elsewhere much has been written of the Doolittle raid, from the bookstand to Hollywood and the curriculum of War Colleges the world over.   Coming fast on the heels of the stunning blows barely four months prior a malevolent arc of destruction and defeat stretching from Pearl Harbor back across the Pacific to…

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Tit-for-Tat Weapons Procurement: You’re Doing it Wrong

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  Congressman Randy Forbes (R-Va) has delivered a letter to the Army Chief of Staff outlining the need for Army to develop and deploy long-range anti-ship missiles.  Because China has: Randy Forbes letter to Gen. Ray Odierno — 2014-10-10 by BreakingDefense So much shallow analysis here and accompanying articles – one wonders where to start……

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The Solomons Campaign: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24-25 August 1942

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Today Steve Ambrose joins the project with the battle of the Eastern Solomons.   A former S-3 NFO, Steve has a wonderful blog that runs the gamut from hand-crafted wooden canoes to an on-line novel about life at sea (‘On The Line‘). Coral Sea was the scene of the first carrier vs carrier battle where…

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USNI: Taking Back Our Institution – 7 Mar Update

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If you haven’t yet — vote In the mail this past week, one of our readers wrote of something he noticed at the bottom of the email newsletter he’d recently received: The U.S. Naval Institute is an independent forum founded in 1873 to advance the knowledge of sea power, to exchange ideas on national security…

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“Air Raid Pearl Harbor. This is Not A Drill.” *

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* Telegraph from Patrol Wing Two Headquarters warning of the attack on Pearl Harbor Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives: Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and…