Before Aircraft Carriers, Battleships Ruled the Seas and Changed the World
Amphibious operations, not sea fights against enemy surface fleets, gave battleships renewed purpose after Pearl Harbor.
James Holmes is Professor of Strategy at the Naval War College and coauthor of Red Star over the Pacific, just out in Mandarin from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He was the last gunnery officer to fire battleship guns in anger, in 1991. The views voiced here are his alone.
This article was first published in 2020.
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