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The swirl of events and factors that define the present day—from emerging potential adversaries overseas to ongoing financial strife and...

CEO Notes

This month, as we mark the 71st anniversary of the Battle of Midway, the Naval Institute Press is publishing The Battle of Midway: The Naval...

Comment and Discussion

American Renewable Energy Is a Must (See R. L. Misso and S. Kleeb, p.10, April 2013 Proceedings)

Now Hear This - We Need a New Legal Code for the Drone War

The recent release of a Justice Department white paper regarding targeted killings of U.S. citizens abroad sparked a great deal of controversy. Much...

Nobody Asked Me, But. . . - Neptune Must Reach for Directed Energy

The Design for Undersea Warfare (DUSW) Update 1 calls for “new capabilities that trick, jam, or blind adversary sensors, disrupt cyber systems...

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Coast Guard Issues $76.8 million Long Lead Option for NSC

U.S. Coast Guard issued a $76.8 million contract option to Huntington Ingalls Industries for...

U.S. Military Ranks Highest in New Gallup Poll

The military bested small business and the police to top the list of U.S. institutions in which...

1,150 U.S. Marines to Australia by 2014

The Australian Government and the U.S. have agreed to allow a contingent of 1,150 Marines to...

Arming Syrian Rebels Will do Little

After years of debate and increased involvement in the training and logistical support of Syrian...

Document: Pentagon Sequestration Impacts In Detail

From the introduction from the June Department of Defense Report on the Joint Committee...

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Contributors

Norman C. Delaney, Naval History’s 2011 Author of the Year, has taught strategy and policy as an adjunct professor...

On Our Scope

While preparing this issue’s Civil War sesquicentennial examination of the Vicksburg campaign, that distant conflict coincidentally came...

Looking Back - Stan the Navy Man

Some shards of memory gleam back from long ago with a special sparkle that keeps...

In Contact

Dual-Purpose Gun’s Long Life

Captain Russ Haas, Commanding Officer and Professor of Naval Science, NROTC Unit, University of...

Armaments and Innovations - The Soda-Bottle-Shaped Shell Guns

At 0400 on 17 June 1863, the powerful Confederate ironclad Atlanta...

Selected By Our Editors

General Says Chinese Sea Patrols 'Legitimate'

Chinese warships will continue to patrol waters where Beijing has territorial claims, a top general said Sunday, amid simmering rows with neighbors ov...

House passes sweeping $638 billion defense bill

The House overwhelmingly passed a sweeping, $638 billion defense bill on Friday that imposes new punishments on members of the armed services found gu...

Marines to land Osprey aircraft on Japanese ship

A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft is expected to make an unprecedented landing on a Japanese naval vessel off the California coast....

Mabus: Navy has too many camo uniforms

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus told reporters on Thursday that he supports the push to reduce the services' number of camouflage uniforms....

Japan Proposing Laws for a U.S.-style NSC

The Japanese government will move as early as next week to propose legislation to establish a National Security Council headed by the prime minister, ...

Featured Content

Fighting the Future AirSea Battle

Establishing air-support operations centers at sea is the key to defeating potential dynamic maritime threats. ...

Expanding the Non-Kinetic Warfare Arsenal

To meet the challenges and threats of the information age, the Navy is realizing that cyberspace means a lot more than just the Internet. ...

Oceans - Race to the Bottom of the Sea—Seven Miles Deep

In 2010 three groups announced plans to develop and send a manned submersible to the deepest place in the World Ocean, the almost seven-miles-down ...

The Transformation (Again!) of the Surface Navy

In the 1980s, the Tomahawk cruise missile expanded the surface Navy’s role; in the 2000s, new technologies continue to enhance surface warfar...

Maximizing Minimum Manning

The Navy can get more from less. Using fewer but better-prepared engineers will cut costs and improve readiness. The key is in the training. ...

U.S. Naval Institute Blog

WWATMD: Mahan in Memoriam

The new Naval Institute Press book “21st Century Mahan: Sound Military Conclusions for the Modern Era” was released over the weekend...

From our Archive: Alfred Thayer Mahan in Memoriam

To very few has it been given so to influence the current of men’s thoughts as vitally to affect human development and even to shape the...

On the contrary, good leadership can make the difference – between life and death. Guest Post by Taylor Kiland and Peter Fretwell

In his recent editorial in the Washington Post, Naval Academy professor Dr. Bruce Fleming asserts that leadership is the “snake oil”...

Professional Debate & the Battle of Ideas, WWATMD? by LCDR BJ Armstrong

As this week’s addition to the USNI Blog series in the run up to the release of LCDR BJ Armstrong’s book “21st Century Mahan: Sound Military...

Midrats Sunday 6 June 13 -5pm (Eastern U.S.) -Episode 179: “CIMCEC and the Marketplace of Ideas”

Join us Sunday at 5pm for Midrats “Episode 179: CIMCEC and the Marketplace of Ideas”: In the best Western tradition, it is generally...

Naval History Blog

U.S. Navy recipients of the Medal of Honor: Korean War

Posted by Michael Ford Tomorrow the Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, dedicates a Korean War display in the Pentagon. In honor of those who...

Howell Torpedo

In 1883 the United States Navy held a public contest to find new design concepts for torpedoes. After reviewing several proposals, the Navy...

1813 Don’t Give Up The Ship Exhibit opens at the National Museum of the US Navy

A new exhibit, “1813 Don’t Give Up the Ship” opens at the National Museum of the United States Navy at the Washington Navy Yard, on June 17. The...

Midway Operational Lesson

MIDWAY’S OPERATIONAL LESSON: THE NEED FOR MORE CARRIERS The Japanese employing six aircraft carriers at one time, as they did in the attack on...

Midway Tactical Lessons

Tactical Lesson of Midway: The Thach Weave When the U.S. Navy entered the war in the Pacific, fighting squadron aircraft strength stood at 18...

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Proceedings Magazine - April 2013 Vol. 139/4/1,322

A View from Manhattan Naval Institute Commodore Michael Wiseman, managing partner at the Sullivan & Cromwell (S&C) law firm in New York City, hosted and sponsored a reception in late February, featuring as keynote speaker Institute CEO...