By Commander Otto Kreisher, U.S. Navy Reserve (Retired)
Have the cost and schedule woes of the Littoral Combat Ship been worth it?
The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program was supposed to be a bold initiative that would break the traditional mold of Navy...
This month we usher in a new year and a new era. November's historic presidential election brings a change in administration to Washington. President-elect Barack Obama's national security...
Grant Supports Naval History Gatefolds
Naval Institute periodicals are being enhanced through the generosity of a grant-making foundation that has chosen to remain anonymous. In 2009, Naval...
In a 20 November 2008 editorial titled "Piracy Problem," the Los Angeles Times noted: "The U.S. Navy said shipping companies should do more to protect their vessels, and the ship...
On War
Reviewed by Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. Cutler, U.S. Navy (Retired)
Military people have been reared on such values as precision and synchronized timing. But they also need to...
By Admiral Robert J. Natter, U.S. Navy (Retired), and Captain R. Robinson Harris, U.S. Navy (Retired)
Two shipbuilding insiders say the Littoral Combat Ship is the most viable program for the future of U.S. Navy surface combatants.
As president of R. J. Natter & Associates, LLC (a firm that...
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A two-year tour on a Royal Navy destroyer showed one young surface warfare officer how much he didn't know.
As the U.S. Navy makes the transition from an era of predominately blue-water operations to...
If Mahan Ran the Great Pacific War: An Analysis of World War II Naval Strategy
John A. Adams. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. 472 pp. Illus. Maps. Notes. Index. $34.95.
Reviewed by...
Colonel Gordon W. Keiser, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired)
Sniper One: On Scope and Under Siege with a Sniper Team in Iraq
Sergeant Dan Mills. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2008. 350 pp. Illus. $26.95.
In April 2004, the newly arrived 1st Battalion,...
On 29 October the Royal Dutch Submarine HNLMS Walrus was photographed pier side at Naval Station Norfolk after eight days of training with U.S. and Dutch naval assets taking part in TACDEVEX 08-08....
Individual Augmentees fill essential roles alongside overtaxed ground troops. The author, an IA in Afghanistan, considers the program's potential for Army and Navy mutual support and the implications...
The old training system was thorough, expensive, and time-consuming. The new relies on SWOs to be what they are: leaders.
Down on the waterfront each June and July, newly minted ensigns arrive at...
By Captain James F. Kelly Jr., U.S. Navy (Retired)
Rally 'Round the New President
Barack Obama won the recent presidential election convincingly, and it is time now for all Americans to rally around the next commander-in-chief. We need to offer our...
Ice: An Identification Sampler
During their seagoing careers, most mariners will never see ice and even fewer will have to navigate through it. In all its forms, whether land-generated or ocean-...
Today's new surface warfare officers report to their ships woefully unprepared to do their jobs.
If you are a young officer who has decided to join the surface warfare community, you will arrive on...
A digital edition of the January 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 USNI...
Maritime Vulnerability
The terrorist raid on Mumbai in late November 2008 dramatized the maritime aspect of the war against terrorism. Soon after the raid, the Indians claimed a surviving terrorist...
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