Seventy Years of the Seabees: Interview With Rear Adm. Mark A. Handley
Only weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the U.S. Navy decided that the combat use of …
Conflicts & Operations
Eddie Rickenbacker Adrift in the Pacific Ocean
Capt. Edward Vernon “Eddie” Rickenbacker was one of the most famous American heroes to emerge from World War I. The …
The Fall Edition of Defense Now Available to Read Online
Over the past few weeks, printed copies of the fall edition of Defense have been delivered to the desks of …
Veterans Day Message As Written by Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta
Since our nation’s founding, brave young Americans from every generation have answered the call to serve in uniform and put …
Lend-Lease to Russia: The Persian Corridor
Of all the competing top priorities President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill grappled with, the most vexing was …
U.S. Marine Corps Is Getting Back to Its Amphibious Roots
After more than a decade of being tied down in two prolonged land conflicts, during which it accumulated the heavy …
The Luftwaffe Almost Downs Jimmy Doolittle
On Nov. 5, 1942, as the Torch convoy steamed through a gale, Lt. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and his staff …
Cuban Missile Crisis: Black Saturday, Agreement, and Lessons Learned
When the sun rose over the Eastern Time Zone on Oct. 27, 1962, the events that would almost cause a …
P-51 Mustang’s Switch to Merlin Engine Made it the World-beater of World War II
Even experts on World War II don’t always remember hearing about an American fighter named the XP-78.
But almost every …
Destroyer USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Pulled Highly Visible Duty During the Cuban Missile Crisis
When the U.S. Navy implemented President John F. Kennedy‘s quarantine of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, one warship in …