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By Commander John Patch, U.S. Navy (Retired)
The word Arctic is from the Greek arktikos, "near the Bear." While it refers to the constellation Ursa Major, recent pronouncements suggest Moscow hopes to give the term new meaning.
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Paul Merzlak, Managing Editor
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By Commander Kirk Lippold, U.S. Navy (Retired)
I relieve you. With these three simple words, military commanders across the globe follow a centuries-old, time-honored tradition, when responsibility and accountability for their commands are...
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By Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. Cutler, U.S. Navy (Retired)
Navy vs. Habsburgs
When the United States entered World War I in 1917, naval aviation was in its infancy with only 43 qualified pilots (five of them Marines) supported by 239 enlisted men. The...
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By Captain Lawson Brigham, U.S. Coast Guard (Retired)
Early in the 21st century, the maritime Arctic is undergoing extraordinary changes and is rapidly becoming a more complex operating environment.
Globalization, climate change, and geopolitical...
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By Kenneth Harbaugh
For almost 40 years, military training has been effectively absent from the nation's most selective civilian universities. During the Vietnam protest movement, schools such as Brown, Columbia,...
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By Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. Cutler U.S. Navy (Retired)
As in previous years, the list of notable naval books for 2008 was compiled, refined, and ultimately decided by a number of people, all of whom are recognized for their knowledge of...
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By Andrew S. Erickson and David D. Yang
A Chinese antiship ballistic missile could alter the rules in the Pacific and place U.S. Navy carrier strike groups in jeopardy.
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By Commander Pat Paterson, U.S. Navy
We urgently need a new foreign policy to reestablish goodwill and trust in Latin America.
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By Scott C. Truver, with Mark Robinsky
"Look at what your Navy's been doing over the last year and a half," Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead offered in several speeches he delivered in early 2009. In each, the...
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