The United States Navy is engaged in twenty-first-century “gunboat diplomacy” after it announced that a second Arleigh ...

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1987. Pp. 518. Illus., maps, charts, index. $34.95. ISBN:0-870-21562-0 Raymond Ames Spruance lived – and worked – in the shadow of William F. Halsey. Yet, it was ...

vice-admiral Raymond Spruance, commanding the US Fifth Fleet. Mawdsley provides excellent pen-portraits of both men: the cautious, genteel Spruance who did well at the Annapolis Naval Academy ...

This might sound harsh, but one only has to look at the risks other commanders took that same year – for instance, at the Battle of Midway, Raymond Spruance ordered the carriers of Task force 16 to ...