Key point: There are always trade-offs and modern warships are no different. “There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today,” said Admiral Beatty as he watched his battlecruisers blow ...

The battlecruiser concept seemed flawed from the start. Like many hybrids, they suffered from an identity crisis. Should they be used like battleships in big fleet actions, or more like cruisers, to ...

Even more than Pearl Harbor, the sinking of the two British battleships served to convince political and naval authorities of the pre-eminence of airpower in the Pacific.