Amid today’s budget squeezes, some question whether the best officer training and education really take place at the service academies. Instead, they suggest that perhaps ROTC programs should...
Enlisted professionals want to engage in the important discussions taking place about the military. They are educated, informed, and prepared to contribute materially to those debates. The Naval...
The world may seem to be growing smaller, but its seas are growing bigger—particularly in the great North, where a widening water-highway beckons both with resources and challenges.
By Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Armstrong, U.S. Navy
We started doing it 212 years ago. Now that the Marine Corps is going back to sea after a decade on the ground, it’s time to revive the Maritime Raid Force.
The Navy/Marine Corps team has a...
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A digital edition of the February issue of Proceedings is available for current USNI members to view. The magazine image below is a link to the online magazine and will take you outside the...
With a sharply focused eye on daily events affecting the Sea Services and 138 years of critical thought captured in our archives, it is clear that a number of new electronic initiatives are needed...
Our war colleges don’t produce the critical-thinking generalists required to formulate grand strategy. A National Security Institute would fill that need.
Fighting Today’s Wars: How America’s Leaders Have Failed Our Warriors
David G. Bolgiano and James M. Patterson. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2011. 192 pp. Intro. Notes. Index...
The analytical and wargaming methods that successfully prepared 20th-century officers should be revisited to train the Navy’s next generation of operational leaders.
If the Navy is to...
So You Want to Be a Speechwriter?
By Commander John Freymann, Captain Cathal O’Connor, and Lieutenant Emelia Probasco, U.S. Navy
Young officers interested in becoming speechwriters need...
The Naval Sea Systems Command in late December awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to Sechan Electronics Inc. for production and support services for a signal data processor...
By Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. Cutler, U.S. Navy (Retired)
Petty Officer Michael Thornton and Lieutenant Thomas R. Norris were among the comparatively few American sailors left in South Vietnam in October of 1972. The so-called “Brown Water Navy...
‘A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.’
George Edward Moore (1873–1958)
A woman comforts her child while waiting for the departure of...
