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American forces are fighting joint as never before in conjunction with the armed forces of allied nations. Joint and combined operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and current operations over Iraq [...]

Q: How were the names of all the U.S. Navy vessels in World War II determined, and by whom? --John McCalmont, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.A: General rules for the types of [...]

The article discusses the U.S. Navy Memorial's 20th anniversary and traces it back to the time it was dedicated to honor the Navy.

The naval intelligence provided the admirals with an advantage over their Soviet counterparts during the Cold War and intelligence officers influenced the conduct of fleet operations on the world's oceans and seas. The admirals' advantage proved to be America's advantage in gaining victory in the long struggle against the Soviet Union.

A massive earthquake shook San Francisco on April 18, 1906 knocking down hundreds of structures and crushing many residents before Hurricane Katrina. The Navy used its destroyer ship Preble to bring in many surgeons and nurses to the devastated city with great difficulty.

Naval strategist Capt. Alfred Thayer Mahan, Secretary of the US Navy John D. Long and Commodore Winfield Scott Schley are responsible for countering a possible sudden appearance of Spanish warships in an era before long-distance radio communications. The challenges faced by the US Coast Guard and the US Customs Service while guarding America's ports are discussed.

The Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) was the creation of the Special Projects Office (SP) to mark the 50th anniversary of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States. The US has increased its atomic weapons stockpile and ability to deliver warheads to prevent any offensive use of Soviet nuclear weaponry.

Ships of the US Navy have often been deployed in rescue and relief efforts, including the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima that became the focal point of recovery efforts during Hurricane Katrina. Similarly, when drought curtailed hydroelectric power supplies in Washington in 1929, the USS 'Lexington's' generators supplied about a quarter of the city of Tacorna's electricity needs.

A historical perspective of Dreadnought battleship, which was first built at Portsmouth Royal Dockyard and placed into service in 180, is provided. The Dreadnought with its all-big gun armament could effectively engage several contemporary battlewagons at ranges up to 10,000 yards, besides being able to pummel lower-caliber gunned ships from a great distance.

It was aboard the battleship 'Missouri' that following the Japanese, General Douglas MacArthur signed the surrender document on behalf of the allied nations. The anomaly of only 31 stars on the US flag aboard the ship at a time when the US consisted of 48 states is explained.

The presentations, which covered the evolution of reconnaissance force insertion, from World War II through the present, were made at the Submarine Force History Symposium titled 'Raiders from the Deep.' The speech made by retired Marine Colonel John Ripley, the head of the Marine Corps Historical Center, in which he discussed his early days as a member of a Marine Force Reconnaissance unit that trained to deploy clandestinely from beneath the waves, was particularly captivating.