The Penobscot Expedition (part 1)
Part 1 of the worst American naval disaster before Pearl Harbor.
Vietnam: Bluewater Operations
This post covers blue water operations off the cost of Vietnam. That is the open seas fleet, the gun line, coastal fire support, naval aviation and the logistics of a war halfway around the world in rough seas along Vietnam's 2100 mile coastline.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The most perilous moment in human history.
In the words of Thomas Blanton, the head of the National Security Archive, "The lesson is that a guy named Vasily Arkhipov has saved the world."
The Korean War
The North Korean Blitzkrieg caught the US painfully unprepared. But thanks to carrier air strikes, shore bombardment, Marine courage, & uncontested supply routes, the situation stabilized before General MacArthur executed one of the most daring amphibious landings of all time to turn the war around.
World War II in the Pacific, part 2
The final, bloody slog across the Pacific. Japan was beaten, but it took dozens of bloody battles on barren atolls and across the vast stretches of ocean to prove it.