by NWCF | Jun 23, 2021 | Publications
The cover reproduces an oil-on-canvas painting by “Andy,” ca. 1970. In early October 1973, the U.S. Sixth Fleet, with USS Little Rock (CG 4) as flagship, mobilized in the eastern Mediterranean during that year’s Arab-Israeli war, also known as the Yom Kippur War. A...
by NWCF | Mar 29, 2021 | News, Publications
The Naval War College Foundation, in partnership with the Pritzker Military Foundation, on behalf of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library, is pleased to share with you “’Feeding ‘Greyhounds’: Fueling the U.S. Navy ‘Second to None’...
by NWCF | Mar 26, 2021 | News, Publications
The Naval War College Foundation is pleased to share its 2020 Annual Report, which, as Chairman Philip Bilden and CEO George Lang describe, “is a testament to the exceptional work accomplished by our esteemed Board of Trustees and very talented and capable...
by NWCF | Feb 1, 2021 | Publications
The cover reproduces Admiral Porter’s Fleet Running the Rebel Blockade of the Mississippi at Vicksburg, April 16th 1863, a lithograph published by Currier & Ives, New York, in 1863. In “Theories of Naval Blockades and Their Application in the Twenty-First...
by NWCF | Dec 1, 2020 | Publications
USS Constellation vs. French Frigate la Vengeance, off West Indies, February 1, 1800, by Arthur N. Disney Sr. This was one of many clashes during the complicated international, maritime, and naval conflict known as the Quasi War with France, 1798–1800. In “‘Things...
by NWCF | Jul 14, 2020 | Publications
The cover reproduces The First Wave on Japan, a 1945 watercolor painting by Standish Backus Jr. It depicts Higgins boats carrying Marines of the 2nd Battalion, 4th Regiment ashore at Fort No. 2 on the Futtsu Peninsula, Tokyo Bay, Japan. The landing represented the...
