Why Hitler's Most Powerful Battleship Ever Refused to Sink

Why Hitler's Most Powerful Battleship Ever Refused to Sink

Bismarck’s sinking was an excellent example of combined arms at sea working together to take down a more powerful opponent.

Kyle Mizokami is a defense and national-security writer based in San Francisco who has appeared in the Diplomat, Foreign Policy, War is Boring and the Daily Beast. In 2009 he cofounded the defense and security blog Japan Security Watch. You can follow him on Twitter: @KyleMizokami.

This first appeared last December and is being reprinted due to reader interest.