An evil empire is only as formidable as its collection of ships, and the Galactic Empire at the center of the Star Wars franchise is no exception. From the very first shots of A New Hope in 1977, ...

After the war, the Emergency Beriberi Investigative Committee investigated the disease’s devastation of Japanese ranks. Worried about the composition of the committee and fully aware of Takaki’s ...

What You Need to Know: Henry Kaiser’s mass-produced Casablanca-class “jeep carriers” became a crucial U.S. Navy asset during WWII. Though smaller and slower than fleet carriers, these escort carriers ...

We sometimes think of World War I as the last great “European” war. Although fought across several continents, the decisive actions happened on the borders of Central Europe, and the great European ...

A 130-year-old historic ryotei Japanese-style restaurant in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, used by many heroes of the Imperial Japanese Navy was destroyed by fire on Monday, a local fire department ...

The Life and Work of Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan U.S.N.* is the first full-dress biography of a godly, pike-backed salty sailor who in his lifetime (1840-1914) did more than any other to shape the ...

An Imperial-built quantum sensor has been trialled in the Arctic to support the development of a satellite-free navigation system.