Tough Question: Was the Gulf War Really a Win for the United States?
The war seemed to suggest that international institutions, underwritten by revolutionary advances in American military power, could finally solve real military security problems. Since then, there has been much evidence to the contrary.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The problems solved by American force of arms don’t remain solved, and the United Nations is anything but united. States can apparently even invade their neighbors and annex provinces again, without fear of military response.
The United States and its coalition partners evicted Iraq from Kuwait over twenty-three years ago. Temporally, the Gulf War is closer to the fall of Saigon than it is to us today. Given the struggles of the past fourteen years, it’s difficult to remember how important the Gulf War seemed in 1991, as the Soviet Union neared its collapse.
The USS
Michael Monsoor, second of the Zumwalt-class destroyers, recently embarked on trials and will be delivered to the U.S. Navy in the next year. While neither the
Monsoor nor its older sister
Zumwalt are likely to be ready to contribute to a war on the Korean Peninsula in the near future, the crisis shows no signs of abating. As tensions between the United States and North Korea grow, it’s worth asking what role the largest, most lethal destroyers in the U.S. arsenal might play in the conflict.
The Last War
In the first Korean War, the United States Navy used all four of its Iowa-class battleships, along with several gun-armed heavy cruisers, to bombard North Korean positions along the coast. This usage built upon the Navy’s experience during World War II, when heavy-gun-armed ships engaged in fire support during amphibious operations, and bombardment against Japanese coastal installations. While the operations against Korea were regarded as successful, they we
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Could Germany Have Won World War I If It Prevailed At the Battle of Jutland?
We can imagine a different outcome if we alter some of the events at the opening of the battle.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Imperial Germany built the ships of the High Seas Fleet for one purpose: to destroy the battlefleet of the Royal Navy. For this purpose, they were good ships, but they offered little for other tasks.
A century ago, the two greatest fleets of the industrial age fought an inconclusive battle in the North Sea. The British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet fielded a total of fifty-eight dreadnought battleships and battlecruisers, ships over the twice the size of most modern surface combatants. Including smaller ships, the battle included 250 vessels in total.
Stealth Kills: Russia Had No Chance Against the Seawolf Submarine
American subs were routinely detecting and trailing the Soviet submarines from a distance without being detected in return.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Thus the U.S. Navy reportedly sees the beefier, more heavily armed characteristics of the
Seawolf as a model for its next SSN(X) submarine even if it comes at a similar cost of $5.5 billion per submarine.
Late in the 1950s, the Soviet Navy’s nuclear-powered submarines starting with the November-class attack submarine could dive twice as deep as most of their American counterparts and often had higher maximum speed. But they had a conspicuous flaw: they were a lot noisier.