NOTE: This is an opinion piece created for discussion purposes and does not reflect the views or opinions of the Canadian government or the Royal Canadian Navy. A Brief History The Royal Canadian Navy is one of the youngest naval forces in the western world. It was...
Logistics is the key to victory in war, if you can cut your enemy supply lines and maintain your own you can effectively reduce or eliminate the enemies ability to continue hostilities.Since before biblical times waring peoples, tribes and nations have laid siege to...
USS Texas is currently closed to the public while she undergoes restoration work, to find out more about her status and to donate to the ship please visit https://battleshiptexas.org/ This article was written with help from Travis Davis and Gabe Shuffield from the...
by Matthew Wright There is no question that Admiral Sir John Fisher, Britain’s First Sea Lord from 1904 to 1910 and the effective head of the Admiralty, was instrumental in driving a sea-change in the nature of heavy warships. What has puzzled historians,...
by Matthew Wright One of the received truths of naval history is the idea that HMS Dreadnought of 1905-06 was a game-changer, the ship that divided naval construction between ‘before’ and ‘after’.[1] And in many respects, that is true. She was the first all-big-gun...
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