Bernard Brodie

The final conquest of Saipan in July of this year marked not only the end of the deployment stage of our naval campaign in the Pacific but also the con- elusion of a complete revolution in the strategy and tactics of the Pacific war. The difference [...]

From the time the industrial revolution first invaded the navies of the world, drastic change in weapons has been so persistent that one might consider it one of the constants of naval war. Most observers consider themselves daring and progressive in [...]

The time is late September, 1948. A convoy of three large landing craft (LST's) escorted by several destroyers and Army fighters off the coast of New Guinea is attacked by a Japanese force of ten torpedo planes and fourteen Zeros. Our fighters take o [...]