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Donald Trump Should Look South to Compete with China: China is still Mahanian. Twenty-one years ago I closed out my very first hefty journal article,...
To Take On China, Trump Should Pivot to Asia - For Real: When he returns to the Oval Office come January, Donald Trump will inherit a very different...
What You Need to Know: Japan faced insurmountable odds in WWII against the U.S. due to America's industrial and military supremacy. However, Japan...
When should you hazard pricey, hard-to-replace capital ships in battle? That question has vexed wartime naval commanders as long as there have been...
Last week Reuters broke newish news on a development years in the making. Namely, the U.S. Navy is experimenting with deploying Army Patriot Advanced...
Montana-class super battleships would have been nice-to-have assets for the U.S. Navy fleet during World War II and beyond. In a world of unbounded...
So I’ve been reading psychologist Philip Tetlock’s treatise on Expert Political Judgment . It’s a nifty piece of work, well worth your time....
Innovation should be purposeful, not whimsical. That’s the message from Naval History and Heritage Command historian Tyler Pitrof’s book Too Far...
Summary and What You Need to Know: Imperial Japan stood little chance of defeating the United States in World War II due to the vast disparity in...
It seems China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy is not omnicompetent after all—sleepless efforts at image management notwithstanding. Last...
Lisa Franchetti is trying to break a paradigm. Admiral Franchetti is the newish chief of naval operations (CNO), or seniormost uniformed U.S. naval...
Troubles in the hallways? Change the culture. Everything a big institution does lies downstream from its culture. Institutions are groups. Culture is...
Over at Popular Mechanics , Kyle Mizokami reports on a video clip (see below) posted by Ryan Szimanski, curator of the USS New Jersey Museum and...
A cheery huzzah! goes out to General Eric Smith, the newish commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. This week Marine Corps headquarters released his...
Summary and Key Points: The Iowa-class battleships, built during the 1940s, continue to captivate public interest despite their retirement over three...
Strategic grandmasters would upbraid Ukraine’s leadership for hurling an offensive into the Russian border district of Kursk. Sure, Carl von...
The USS Constellation (FFG-62) frigate program is doing little to refurbish the U.S. Navy’s reputation for competence. Intended to deliver a...
The late Professor Michael Handel codified the “principle of continuity,” rebranding the Prussian soldier-scribe Carl von...
So a young acquaintance asks what kinds of ships there are in a navy. That’s kind of a basic question. You would think it lends itself to a pithy...
Do Europeans support NATO? They certainly fret a lot about the future of the Atlantic Alliance. To hear them tell it, a return of Donald Trump to the...
It has been a rare helter-skelter summer at the Holmes compound somewhere along the shores of the Narragansett Bay. Road trip to State College,...
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy has announced a major advancement with the successful integration of the SM-6 missile onto carrier-based...
Perception is king in power politics. Audiences foreign and domestic take the measure of the leadership of a powerful nation—a behemoth like the...
Is China at war in the South China Sea? You be the judge. Beyond dispute its conduct is warlike—and that has implications for those resisting its...
Summary and Key Points: Rumors that Houthi militiamen have sunk or driven off the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower are false. Despite Houthi claims and some...
I see maritime statecraft as a process, a habit indispensable in officers and officials, and a way of life for a society that aspires to do business...
Economics pundit Noah Smith reports that a meme has been circulating among China-watchers of late. The meme holds that if you would just travel to...
Summary: The aircraft carrier's role has evolved from scouting for battleships to becoming a primary strike force and geopolitical tool. ...
Admiral Lisa Franchetti, America’s chief of naval operations or top uniformed naval officer, recently released her first Navy Professional Reading...
China’s surface fleet is increasingly footloose—including its aviation component. Backed by an impressive armory of shore-based weapons, the fleet...
China is in a hurry. It’s in a hurry because the Chinese Communist Party entertains ambitions of breathtaking sweep yet has fewer and fewer...
Zumwalt-Class: Will it be a success or failure in the long run? It is neither fast nor cheap nor easy to swap out a warship’s major armament for...
History is in the making whenever nations’ airy navies grapple in the central blue. And you can learn from it. I just finished delayed-action...
It’s a truism that the Pacific is an amphibian theater. Just look at your map and behold! the oceanic region’s majestic vacantness. That being the...
This month over at the Naval Institute Proceedings, Lieutenant Commander Jeff Zeberlein proffers an intriguing, if oblique, take on the future of the...
Battleships are back in the news thanks to USS New Jersey, an Iowa-class dreadnought now retired as a museum ship in Camden, New Jersey. Last week,...
Walter Lippmann, call your office. Last week the Biden Pentagon submitted its budget request for fiscal year 2025. If executed as written, the request...
Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro recently barnstormed Northeast Asian shipyards in hopes of enlisting investment from allied nations to help...
Whither aircraft carriers? Some years ago a former colleague broke down carriers’ historic missions to discern whether they remain adequate unto...
Today marks the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and Western support for the defenders seems to be flagging. That’s because the...
How many attack submarines does the U.S. Navy need? The more, the better. But accomplishing the mission is the important thing, and the ability to...
The age of undersea exceptionalism is drawing to a close in naval warfare. Get used to it, submariners, and get ready. That’s the glum but bracing...
Would you be deterred by an antagonist you believe to be incompetent, irresolute, or both? That question has become part of daily discourse about U.S....
The revolution in naval warfare continues. In fact, the revolution has gone into overdrive in this age of inexpensive, plentiful, lethal drones and...
Go Indian Navy! True to its tradition of nonalignment, India has declined to join the U.S.-led effort to keep open shipping lanes in the Red Sea,...
It’s all “warfighting,” all the time, for the next four years while Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the newly installed chief of naval operations (CNO)...