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When President Barack Obama announced the normalization of relations with longtime Cold War adversary Cuba last December, this seismic shift ...

CEO Notes

There is still time for you to register for the 2015 History Conference, “Marine Corps Actions Shaping History,” scheduled for 14 October...

Comment & Discussion

The Demise of the Cutterman (See B. Smicklas, pp. 28–33, August 2015 Proceedings)

Now Hear this - Demise of the Aircraft Carrier? Hardly

Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? “Not I, roared the lion, for I am the king of the jungle”—just as U.S. aircraft carriers...

Nobody Asked Me, But . . . - It’s Time for a Revolution in Maritime ‘Credentialing’

The surface warfare community is in the midst of change—good change. Notable progress includes the increased focus on developing tactical...

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Marines Identify Maj. Taj Sareen as Pilot Killed in England Hornet Crash

The Marines have identified the pilot who died following a Wednesday fighter crash in England. ...

Document: Report to Congress on Armed Conflict in Syria

The folioing is the Oct. 9, 2015 Congressional Research Service report, Armed Conflict in Syria...

Chinese Warships to Make Naval Station Mayport Port Visit Amidst South China Sea Tension

A trio of Chinese warships in the middle of a world tour are in route to Naval Station Mayport,...

Undersea Warfare Directorate Looking To Increase Dominance Through Key Investments

The new director of undersea warfare (OPNAV N97) is looking to extend the Navy’s asymmetrical...

Former SECDEF Robert Gates: U.S. Faces a Generation of Middle East Conflict

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday described the Pentagon under the...

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Roger Barr is the author of nine books, including America’s Wars: The Vietnam War (Lucent Books, 1991), The...

On Our Scope

‘Our New Cruisers” was how the U.S. Naval Institute announced the news in 1883. The ten-year-old organization had been founded by a...

Looking Back - Legacy of Détente

Though it is little remembered today, a period of détente allowed for a brief thawing in the decades-long Cold War between the United States and...

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Howard Fuller

Armaments & Innovations - The Revolutionary Rangekeeper

‘I would construct a machine to do any old thing in any old way” was young Hannibal C. Ford’s yearbook motto at Cornell...

Selected By Our Editors

Obama to keep troops in Afghanistan beyond 2016

President Barack Obama will keep 5,500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan when he leaves office in 2017, according to senior administration officials, casting...

Russian Strikes in Syria a Sort of Show-and-Tell of Unexpected Strength

Two weeks of air and missile strikes in Syria have given Western intelligence and military officials a deeper appreciation of the transformation that ...

China says has not militarized South China Sea

China has not militarized the South China Sea, but there are certain countries which keep flexing their muscles who should stop hyping up the issue, C...

Navy chief: Service considering expanding paternity leave

The Navy’s top officer says the service is considering extending paternity leave for new fathers. ...

Sybil Stockdale, POW wife, dies

Sybil Stockdale, widow of Vice Admiral James Stockdale, is dead at 90....

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.The definitio...

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

Lost at Sea

When a cargo ship casts off its lines and sets sail towards distant lands and men of strange speech, it vanishes from society’s collective memory...

Recommend Low Vis Calls

The Chief of Naval Air Forces has been roundly pilloried in the last 24 hours by the military blogging establishment. The conspiracy theories...

Allies: A Gold Standard in Peace; Possible Wartime Pyrite

This week gave another example why some concepts should give all navalists pause – things such as “1,000 Ship Navy,” “...

“On Becoming CAG” Feedback, Part I

Today, the Aviation Major Command Screen Board (AMCSB) convenes in Millington, Tennessee. It is the annual gathering to determine the future of...

A Woman of Substance

As my father let me know early on in my life, the most important decision a man can make is the woman he marries. It wasn’t until I was much older...

Naval History Blog

Monument of the Month: The Anchor at the Naval Medical Clinic Annapolis

The Naval Academy, home to the U.S. Naval Institute, is home to many monuments big and small, that honor the men and women of the Sea Services and...

Navy on the Western Front: The 14″ Railway Guns in WWI

With a rumble and puffs of steam and smoke, the U.S. Navy rolled into Paris in September, 1918. Word of the Navy’s coming had been...

An Admiral’s Letters to His Son

By Vice Admiral George W. Emery, U.S. Navy (Retired) Admiral Hyman George Rickover, “the father of the nuclear Navy,” demanded stringent...

The Attack on the USNS Card

In the early morning hours of May 2nd, 1964, Captain Borge Langeland of the USNS Card (T-AKV-40) was supervising the loading of old helicopters...

Graham E. Martin-In His Own Words

I often comment to friends and coworkers that the hardest part of writing for me is deciding what to write. Unlike most college students, I...

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Proceedings Magazine - October 2015 Vol. 141/10/1,352

Join the Leaders! The Naval Institute is truly grateful for the generosity of all our amazing supporters. Our deepest thanks to the following individuals whose participation thus far in 2015 distinguishes them as members of the Alfred Thayer Mahan...