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Editor's Page

It’s been an eventful 12 months for the Sea Services, and as we do every May, we pause to review the many notable accomplishments of the Navy,...

CEO Notes

The U.S. Naval Institute Annual Meeting was held on 11 April at the Phoenix Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., with a fine turnout of Members. The...

Comment and Discussion

The Commanders Respond (See R. Griggs, P. Maddison, et al., pp. 16–29, March 2013 Proceedings)

Now Hear This - ‘If We Are to Remain a World Power’

When the latest issue of Proceedings arrived in June 1906, Naval Institute members and the American people heard from a renowned global expert, a...

Nobody Asked Me, But . . . - A New Look at John Paul Jones

One early 20th-century writer called John Paul Jones “a knight of the seas.” Some refer to him as the father of the U.S. Navy. But others...

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Navy’s Unmanned Carrier Aircraft Preforms First Touch and Go

Less than a week after its historic launch of the deck of the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77), the...

Navy Identifies SEAL Killed in Training Accident

The Navy has released the name of the SEAL from the Naval Special Warfare Group Two at Joint...

SEAL Killed in Training Accident

A SEAL from the Naval Special Warfare Group Two at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort...

Bob Work’s Advice for the Pentagon

Bob Work — the chief executive officer of Center for a New American Security and former under...

GAO: Cost of COCOM Staffs Doubled in Five Years

The following is an excert from the executive summary of a May Government Accountability Office...

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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

North Koreans holding Chinese boat hostage

BEIJING – Armed North Koreans are holding a Chinese fishing boat and its crew ransom despite the protestation of Chinese officials, the boat’s own...

Syria's Bashar Assad: I'm not stepping down

Syria's President Bashar Assad emerged from the shadows to announce in a publicly televised interview that he's not stepping down, and he's not caving...

South Korea: North Korea fires 5th projectile in 3 days into nearby waters

South Korea has accused its northern neighbor of firing a short-range projectile into its nearby waters for the fifth time in the past three days. Nor...

Iran claims new air defense missile system

Iran says it has new air defense missile technology that can take on low-flying craft, and it's in process of mass producing the system. The system, c...

Suicide bomb attack in northern Afghanistan

Afghan president condemns attack on provincial government office in Pul-e-Khumri, Baghlan which left at least 13 dead....

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

Guest Post by LCDR Benjamin “BJ” Armstrong: The Qualifications of a Naval Officer: WWATMD?

This is the first post in a weekly series about the writing and thinking of Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, leading up to the release of “21st...

Sunday on Midrats: Episode 176- “Fallujah Awakens” with Bill Ardolino

Join us at Midrats on BlogTalkRadio, Sunday, May 19, 2013 for Episode 176: “Fallujah Awakens” with Bill Ardolino: How did the US...

X-47B Launch Catapults Naval Aviation into the Future: Guest Post by LCDR Guy Snodgrass

Today’s successful launch of an X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator marks a significant turning point for Naval Aviation,...

Jets and More Jets: A Tour of Naval Air Station Oceana

“I won’t be offended if you turn away to watch the planes flying. I do it myself all the time,” NAS Oceana commanding officer...

Guest Post by RDML James Foggo: No Greater Honor

Completely unrelated to the world of the Navy Budget in the Pentagon, where I have been working for the last year, I was asked by the Director,...

Naval History Blog

May 17, 1942: USS Tautog sinks Japanese submarine I-28

This article appeared in the March 1958 issue of Proceedings, published as Deep Battleground by Commander Charles W. Rush, Jr., USN. May 17, 1942...

The Legend of the USS ENTERPRISE

The month of May historically has been an important time for the USS Enterprise. On May 12, 1938 the USS Enterprise CV-6 was commissioned and on...

@HistoryNavyNews Manned and Ready

Open letter to naval history enthusiasts and Twitter users: I’m Dave Werner, and earlier this year I joined the Naval History and Heritage Command...

May 9, 1865: The American Civil War Officially Ends

This August 1945 Proceedings article was published by P. H. Magruder, former Secretary of the Naval Academy as “The U.S. Naval Academy and...

The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

The level of significance and strategic use of Airships has fluctuated since their introduction to service in the U.S. Navy in the early part of...

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Naval Institute Foundation

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...