Warfare & Defence

After the United States entry into the Second World War in 1941, their war department realised that, due to the increasing dominance of air power, ...

Though less iconic than the nimble Spitfire, the Hawker Hurricane was a vital stalwart in the British war effort. The Hurricane was a more stable g...

Admiral Nelson's most frequent cry was for more frigates. Though not ships of the line these fast and powerful warships were the 'eyes of the fleet...

Have you ever wondered what it was like to fly the Phantom? This is not a potted history of an aeroplane, nor is it Hollywood glamour as captured i...

The national defence strategy of the United States is evolving in response to changing global environments. As Congress responds to these changes, ...

The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary...

During the Second World War navies developed low visibility camouflage for their ships, on both the vertical and horizontal surfaces, in order redu...

Kill Chain is the essential history of drone warfare, a development in military technology that, as Andrew Cockburn demonstrates, has its origins...

From the dawn of civilization man has held a fascination with the sea, and over the centuries has built myriad ships and sailing craft for an equal...

A unique perspective of the global history of U-boats during the entirety of the Second World War by Lawrence Paterson, one of the worlds leading U...

This is a compilation which brings together in one volume technical descriptions of the Royal Navys Queen Elizabeth class battleships. Queen Elizab...

In the late 1890s the Russian Empire sought to strengthen its presence in the Far East, China and Korea. Faced with a growing threat posed by the I...

Despite the limitations of the Washington Naval Treaty, USS Indianapolis was an imposing warship. She was widely used by US dignitaries in the 1930...

The launch in 1906 of HMS _Dreadnought_, the worlds first all-big-gun battleship, rendered all existing battle fleets obsolete, but at the same tim...

This book tells the story of HMS New Zealand, a battlecruiser paid for by the people of New Zealand in 1909, and when Japan was perceived as a thre...

The Battle of Tsushima, the epic battle between the Japanese and Russian navies on May 27-28 1905, is examined in far greater detail than ever befo...

On 1 June 1939 His Majesty''s Submarine Thetis sank in Liverpool Bay while on her diving trials. Her loss is still the worst peacetime submarine di...

The Japanese Navy ordered two new battleships in 1912. They were an improved version of Fuso type battleships. Their construction was included in t...

The ShipCraft'' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each b...

Originally published in Japan in 2005, each album in The Japanese Naval Warship Photo Album Series contains official photographs taken by the Kure ...