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After more than a decade of apathy and false starts, the Navy will shrink to a nadir of 280 warships by 2027-the same time ...

In this episode, Kings and Generals examines the critical Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands—one of the last major carrier ...

The Pacific war was about far more than being “different.” Indeed, before and after the war, race was not a determining factor in American and Japanese relations.

Taiwan, a self-ruled island democracy, is the primary point of clash between the two powers. The U.S. has vowed to deter Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific—Washington's "priority theater"—while ...

Our Navy, in the Pacific war, suffered an initial defeat which, in terms of relative fighting power, was as serious as that suffered by the Russian Army. The factors which saved us both are also ...

The new Crusade starts with Japan’s march on Manchuria in 1931, goes through the bloodiest and most dramatic scenes of the Pacific war, and ends with the Communist aggression in Korea.

1st to fight: Pacific War Marinesis available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku ...

THE PACIFIC WAR IN COLOR premieres Sunday, June 24 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Smithsonian Channel. THE PACIFIC WAR IN COLOR immerses viewers in a graphic and dramatic look through an unfiltered lens.

World War II is sometimes thought of as primarily a fight against Nazi Germany, with the war in the Pacific as an after-thought. Fortunately, there is no shortage of worthwhile books about the ...

The Japanese High Command conceived the war in the Pacific as one to be fought, like the trench warfare of 1914-1918, in terms of area and fixed defenses.