We need new thinking—something that doesn’t come naturally to large bureaucracies like the one in the Pentagon—about national defense. A guiding principle of that new thinking must be that the defense ...

Derry is acknowledged as the Allies' most important escort base during the Battle of the Atlantic. On 14 May 1945 the first ...

Hunter A Wood II, whose father painted the Jesus painting at the U S Merchant Marine Academy that has repeatedly made ...

Emma Bushee's sons were serving on six continents. At home, she waited for their letters — and tried to pray them home safe.

The Dutch merchant ship 'Koning Willem de Tweede' sank off the coast of South Australia in a violent storm in June 1857 ...

China’s navy is outbuilding America’s. A pending bill can change that and give an economic boost to local manufacturing.

During World War II, US shipbuilding was decisive in overcoming the initial shock of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

These are the five deepest shipwrecks ever discovered, including the USS ‘Samuel B. Roberts,’ which went to the depths of the ...

The USS Silversides submarine sank 23 ships during World War II. It was also the site of a successful emergency appendectomy ...

Why does it fall to the U.S. to deal with Houthi threats on our own?

Peter Wellman made a final visit last year to see the abandoned coastal village, where he was born and brought up. Tyneham in ...

More than 66,000 Allied merchant seamen, sailors and airmen died, with 175 Allied warships and 5,000 merchant ships destroyed ...