“The Bismarck Sea may not be mine, but it is no longer his and he crosses it at his peril,” said Douglas MacArthur a year ago. It had begun to be his a few days before when his Fifth Air Force swooped ...

These days, the United States has more aircraft carriers than any other country in the world. As of this writing, the U.S. has 11 aircraft carriers and is building more to replace some of its older ...

The long-standing controversy of sea power v. air power was settled once and for all by the Hood-Bismarck affair and by the battle for Crete. The answer was not that air power had proved indisputably ...