by Dale Jenkins | Dec 5, 2025 | Featured Excerpts
Our Pearl Harbor countdown continues with Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, whose strategic insight made him one of the earliest and clearest voices warning Japan’s leaders about the consequences of war with the United States. His concerns reveal just how rapidly the crisis...
by Dale Jenkins | Oct 28, 2025 | Book Reviews
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 W.W. Norton & Company, 597 pages, 2012. This is the first of a trilogy intended by Mr. Toll as a comprehensive study of the Pacific War. It begins with a vivid account of the Pearl harbor attack of December 7,...
by Dale Jenkins | Jul 31, 2025 | Published Articles
Introduction The Pacific Fleet naval victory at Midway on June 4, 1942 is one of the greatest in the history of the U.S. Navy, and one of the most significant victories in the history of armed conflict, on land or sea. Decryption of Japanese messaging a week ahead of...
by Dale Jenkins | Jul 18, 2025 | Book Reviews
Martin Dugard, Taking Midway, Dutton (Penguin Random House), 358 pages, 2025. The latest in a series of books, Taking Midway follows Taking Berlin and Taking Paris with an engaging series of vignettes, anecdotes and narratives leading to the June 4, 1942 Midway battle...
by Dale Jenkins | Jun 9, 2025 | Published Articles
June is Midway Month. Eighty-three years ago, the course of the Pacific War turned on a knife’s edge during the Battle of Midway—a victory shaped by intelligence, timing, and the courage of U.S. Navy pilots and commanders. In this special anniversary interview,...
