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Handling the San Antonio-Class LPD

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Rethink the ‘J’ in JPME

Perhaps more than “jointness,” the Navy needs warfighters who understand the service beyond their own designator. Not to...

The Marine Corps Needs Organic Air Defense

The Army’s multimission launcher (part of the indirect-fire protection program) will provide 360-degree protection and engage threats arriving...

Surface Warfare Officers Need Mariner Credentials

The crew of MV Sunshine State takes the ship to sea from Pascagoula, Mississippi. The U.S. Navy would benefit from formally adopting civilian...

Oceans: Russia Developing New Arctic LNG Marine Routes

The Christophe de Margerie-class ships are highly capable icebreaking LNG carriers designed to break five feet of ice while sailing continuously. (...

More Comment & Discussion from January

Realistic Trauma Training Hones Surgical Teams (See J. Malone, et al., pp. 54–57, December 2018) Captain Malone and his coauthors skirt...

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Marines’ Next High-End Fight Could Call for Larger Formations, Tougher Amphibs

ARLINGTON, Va. – The Marine Corps is preparing for a high-end distributed fight inside island...

Military Judge Disqualifies Naval Reactors Director Caldwell from Overseeing Fitzgerald CO Trial

A military judge has disqualified Director of Naval Reactors Adm. Frank Caldwell from overseeing...

Document: U.S. National Intelligence Strategy 2019

The following is the recently released U.S. National Intelligence Strategy 2019. Letter from the...

Navy Squeezing Costs Out of FFG(X) Program as Requirements Solidify

ARLINGTON, Va. – The Navy says it may have squeezed out about $150 million per hull in savings...

N95 Coffman Says Accelerate Big Deck Amphib Construction, Cut LSD Modernization Program

ARLINGTON, Va. – In an attempt to address a “capacity problem” in the amphibious ship...

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Naval History contributors range from professional historians to veterans to history buffs. But, for the magazine’s staff...

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Navy Divers Recover Oil from German Shipwreck

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As I Recall — ‘The Defining Moment in My Life’

Admiral Smith spent part of his youth on a farm in Alabama. While a freshman at the University of Alabama, he decided to apply for the U.S....

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Decatur and the Prisoners

William J. Prom

Frederick Leiner’s “Killing the Prisoners” from the...

Armaments & Innovations—The 74—the Perfect Age-of-Sail Ship

In the spring of 1747, France sent a convoy of 30 merchantmen to bring reinforcements and supplies to its beleaguered troops in North America. The...

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Female Navy Recruits Get First 'Dixie Cup' Hats at Boot Camp

The Navy's Recruit Training Command at Great Lakes Illinois marked another milestone in efforts to make uniforms more gender-specific Monday when fema...

China aims to prepare military for battle by ending paid contract work

China has ordered its armed forces to end all paid outside work within three years as part of a push to make the world's largest standing military mor...

Navy: 8 Sailors Aboard Carrier USS Eisenhower Hurt During Landing

Eight sailors were injured aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower during an aircraft landing off Virginia's coast, the Navy said....

U.S., South Korea stage assault drill; North threatens to wipe out enemies

U.S. and South Korean troops staged a big amphibious landing exercise on Saturday, storming simulated North Korean beach defenses. ...

Marine Corps Wants Funding to Improve Security at Recruiting Centers

Ten months after a gunman opened fire in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the Corps is still working to bolster the security of its recruiting officers....

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Fighting the Future AirSea Battle

Establishing air-support operations centers at sea is the key to defeating potential dynamic maritime threats.Uproar 11, a flight of two F/A-18E Super...

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 &ld...

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 warfare&r...

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.Few days p...

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What do We Have Wrong About the Future?

As we enter the last year of the second decade of the 21st Century, we are well in to predictions about what the world of the 2020s, 2030 and more...

The Future Belongs to Those Who Show Up—And Act Boldly

The amphibian naval commentator CDR Salamander touches on demographics this week, as is his wont. Sal tells a grim tale, pointing out that the...

Passing the Eye Candy Test

Excerpt from NAVADMIN 265/18: “This NAVADMIN cancels reference (a) and reinstates the requirement to display the Official Photograph for all...

Delivering Cyberspace Capabilities to the Fleet

In 2018 U.S. Cyber Command was elevated from a subordinate element of U.S. Strategic Command to a full unified combatant command for cyberspace...

Can you create a critical thinker?

Via Helen Lee Bouygues at Forbes, it looks like our Navy is trying to figure that out. … the U.S. Navy has been conducting a major study that’s...

Naval History Blog

Day 9 — March 25 — Guam — Our Own Tour

Lieutenant Leroy Fadem recently revisited sites in the Pacific where he saw action in the Navy during the tumultuous years of the War in the...

USS Carpenter (DD-825) Reunion – May 2019

The USS Carpenter (DD-825) reunion will take place in San Antonio, TX from May 16th through May 20, 2019. Jimmie Kennedy is the point of...

USS Bon Homme Richard (CV CVA-31) to Hold 34th Annual Reunion in September 2019

The 34th annual reunion of the USS Bon Homme Richard Shipmates Association will be held 11-14 Sept 2019 at the Red Lion Hotel in Harrisburg, PA....

Moser’s Naval Photo Logs — ‘Just the Thing’

Norbert George Moser was born in Pierceton, Indiana, to the immigrant German merchant Gabriel Moser and Illinois native Anna Miller on 18 ...

USS Houston (CL-81) Plans 43rd Reunion

The 43rd Annual Reunion of the USS Houston (CL-81) will be held September 11th – 15th, 2019, at the Hilton Garden Inn Louisville...

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Proceedings Magazine - June 2017 Vol. 143/6/1,372

Recent Honorary and Memorial Gifts Gifts of support to the Naval Institute have been made in the name of the following: In honor of: A. Denis Clift, by Keith Hahn Jennifer Grove, by Robert Rose, DDS LCDR Robert B. Leet, USNR (Ret.), by Tracy Jaquier...