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• Air warfare planning [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Alfred Nobel [r]: (October 21, 1833, Stockholm, Sweden – December 10, 1896, Sanremo, Italy) A Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. ^[e]
• American Civil War [r]: {1861-65) war by the U.S. to prevent 11 of its states (the Confederate States of America) from seceding; won by the U.S. after the death of 600,000 people and the abolishment of slavery. ^[e]
• Anti-aircraft artillery [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Anti-shipping missile [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Anti-submarine warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Anti-surface warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Attack cargo ship [r]: A WWII-era U.S. Navy ship designed specifically to carry heavy equipment, supplies and troops in support of amphibious assaults, and to provide naval gunfire support during those assaults. ^[e]
• Battle of Leyte Gulf [r]: The largest naval battle in history, fought in October 1944 as Japan tried to interfere with U.S. amphibious landings in the Philippines ^[e]
• Battle of Pearl Harbor [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Battle of Surigao Strait [r]: Fought in October 1944 at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the last naval engagement between forces based around battleships ^[e]
• Battle of Taranto [r]: A devastating 1940 airstrike by British carrier aircraft against Italian warships in the harbor of Taranto; demonstrated that aerial torpedoes could work in shallow water and proved the concept used by the Japanese in the attack on Pearl Harbor ^[e]
• Battleship [r]: A heavily-armored, warship optimized for fighting other warships using large-caliber guns; certain armor requirements differentiated from cruisers; obsolete by end of World War II. ^[e]
• Bomber aircraft [r]: Airplanes optimized to deliver weapons to surface targets, rather than to fight other airplanes. ^[e]
• Burke-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cognitive traps for intelligence analysis [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cruiser [r]: While definitions vary with time and doctrine, a large warship capable of acting independently, as a flagship, or a major escort; capabilities include anti-air warfare, anti-surface warfare, anti-submarine warfare, land attack, and possibly ballistic missile defense ^[e]
• Depth charge [r]: Early antisubmarine weapons consisting of a large explosive charge and a fuze that was set for a given depth; free-falling and formed a barrage with no guidance; later models had streamlined cases for faster sinking ^[e]
• Destroyer [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Douglas MacArthur [r]: Senior U.S. Army commander in the Second World War, head of the Occupation of Japan, holder of the highest rank and highest honor for valor in the Army, yet relieved of command for insubordination ^[e]
• Electronic warfare [r]: A subset of information operations that deals with the use of electromagnetic or kinetic means to degrade an enemy's military electronics systems, to be able to operate one's own electronics in the face of enemy attacks, and to evade those attacks through protection or deception ^[e]
• Fast attack craft [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Fire and forget [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Fletcher-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Guided missile [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Gulf of Tonkin incident [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Honor Harrington [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Landing craft [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Light cruiser [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Littoral warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Mahan-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Maritime patrol aircraft [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Mine (naval warfare) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Naval guns and gunnery [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Naval vessel designation code [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Naval warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Navy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Nuclear weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description
• P-8 Poseidon [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Precision-guided munition [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Project 949 Granit-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
• RUM-139 Vertical Launch ASROC [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Royal Navy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• SIGINT in the Second World War [r]: Add brief definition or description
• SLQ-25 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Safety and survivability of naval vessels [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Submarine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Surface-to-underwater missile [r]: Add brief definition or description
• U.S. Navy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS Alchiba (AKA-6) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS Alhena (AKA-9) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS Electra (AKA-4) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS Starr (AKA-67) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Underwater-to-underwater missile [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Unguided rocket [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Warhead [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Warship [r]: Add brief definition or description
• World War II, air war [r]: Add brief definition or description