Named after James Forrestal, America's first secretary of defense, the Forrestal was launched in 1954 and introduced significant advancements in carrier design, including a capacity for ...

In its extremity, this week, it prepared a compromise. Jim Forrestal and topnotch Naval Aviator Rear Admiral Arthur Radford will go before the Senate committee with something new—the Navy’s ...

Last week, in his first formal report, Defense Secretary Jim Forrestal told them that all this was still not enough for security against the Russians.* The U.S. taxpayers would also have to dig up ...

If you go back to the Truman administration's James Forrestal, there have been 28 secretaries of Defense, and none of them made it to the presidency, and only one – Dick Cheney – got as far as ...