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TwitterX: A Secure Social Media Application for Naval Special Warfare

Command Has Not Been Eroded

In the November 2018 Proceedings, CAPT Kevin Eyer, U.S. Navy (Retired) wrote of an erosion of trust in commanding officers in the Surface Navy....

The Proceedings Podcast

Episode 50: November 19, 2018

Charting a Course: Stop the Erosion of Command

Authority in command is supposed to be absolute, but over time commanding officers’ authority has eroded while accountability has increased...

Build a Corvette with a Hornet’s Sting

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Panel: Southeast Asia Growing Increasingly Wary of Chinese Investment Strategy

Nations stretching from India into Southeast Asia see China’s investments and loan...

Next Presidential Helicopter Passes First Test Landing at White House

The next Presidential helicopter, the VH-92A built by Sikorsky, successfully landed at the White...

Report to Congress on Global R&D Implications for the Pentagon

The following is the Nov. 8, 2018 Congressional Research Service report The Global Research and...

Short on Personnel, Army Recruiters Try Poaching Navy Officer Candidates on Reddit

THE PENTAGON — The Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force all hit their Fiscal Year 2018...

50 Years Later Marine Vietnam Vet Receives Navy Cross for Combat Leadership

When a North Vietnamese Army battalion’s ambushed his infantry company, seriously wounding...

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As I Recall

Vice Admiral Bernard L. Austin (1902–79) had a distinguished naval career that included service in World War II, the Korean War, and the...

Bluejacket's Manual — The Bullseye: 'Navigating' within a Ship

Just as a town or city has a system using street signs and addresses to help you find your way around, so does a Navy ship. Each space in a Navy...

Book Reviews

Engines of Rebellion: Confederate Ironclads and Steam Engineering in...

In Contact

Pacific ‘Gem’s’ Rescue Role

Commander Thomas “Duke” Wayne, U.S. Naval Reserve (Retired)

Museum Report: The Torpedo Bay Navy Museum

The Royal New Zealand Navy’s Torpedo Bay Navy Museum, on a bluff overlooking Waitemata Harbour at the east end of King Edward Parade in...

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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....

Featured Content

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...

U.S. Naval Institute Blog

The Price Is Wrong

For almost 50 years, “The Price is Right” followed a repetitive and reliable script. But, in a viral YouTube video from 2007, a man makes it...

In Five Minutes, Be Tactical and Victorious or Die

“You’ve got five minutes; be tactical, adaptable, and flexible or you’re dead, the ship is sunk, and the war is lost.” In five minutes, the latest...

On Midrats 18 November 2018 – Episode 463: Audience, Approach, and Obstacles in Military Communications

Please join us at 5pm EST on 18 November 2018 for Midrats Episode 463: Audience, Approach, and Obstacles in Military Communications How can our...

Challenging Navy Culture to Leverage Untapped Human Capital

A couple of months ago, I fired off a satirical response to what I perceived as unhelpful generational criticism. When the editors at the Naval...

For the want of a drydock

“For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of a horse the rider was lost, For the want of...

Naval History Blog

Day 7- March 23- Guam

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...

Scuttlebutt: Thanksgiving 1943

The Naval Institute Archive was recently the recipient of a lucky find by Bill Foley of Boston who came upon some USS Hermitage (AP-54) papers...

USS Lakatoi – A Short, but Heroic Life

If there were a contest to find the U.S. Navy ship with the shortest career from commissioning to sinking, USS Lakatoi, with just six days, would...

This Day in History: The Trent Affair

November 8 marks the anniversary of the Trent Affair of 1861. During the opening months of the Civil War, the U.S. Navy stopped the British mail...

Damage Control on the USS Houston (CL-81)

In this selection, future RADM George H. Miller recounts the torpedoing of the USS Houston (CL-81) in October of 1944, off the coast of Formosa,...

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Naval Institute Foundation

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...