Over the summer, the United States deployed warships to the Caribbean – ostensibly to menace drug traffickers but also as a none-too-subtle warning to Venezuela. Earlier in the year, a U.S. Navy ...

For the last several weeks, the full might of the U.S. Navy, including the largest, most deadly aircraft carrier in America's ...

River-class patrol vessels exercising off the coast of Cornwall, Britain - Al Macleod The Royal Navy currently has five River-class Batch 2 Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) forward-deployed around the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Close to 200 years after first being used to assert geopolitical dominance, gunboat ...

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