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    50 is the New 40: The Path to a 355-Ship Navy
    Recently Vice Admiral Tom Moore, Naval Systems Sea Command (NavSea), announced an extension in the expected service life of several classes of ships...
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    Episode 42: Sept. 12, 2018Maor Valerie McGuire on Russia's hybrid warfare threat, including computer hacking.
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    Model a Space Force on the Coast Guard
    The space domain requires a force with similar responsibilities and authorities as the Coast Guard. In the past several months, many commentators (...
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    Blockchain Technology Will Change Maritime Operations
    Today a disruptive technology called blockchain is slowly changing the world we operate in. A wave of adoption of blockchain will soon reach the...
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    Document: National Cyber Strategy

    The following is the National Cyber Strategy that was released by the White House on Sept. 20,...

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    Major Navy Programs Likely Protected From Expected Tighter Pentagon Budgets

    WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Pentagon is banking on billions in savings through operational...

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    Pentagon Task Force Looks to Revamp Close-Combat Infantry Training, Lethality

    A Pentagon-directed group tasked with making close-combat infantry more lethal and effective has...

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    Report to Congress on U.S.-Turkey Relations

    The following is the Aug. 31, 2018 Congressional Research Service report Turkey: Background and...

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    ‘Dirt Det’ Deployment: 15th MEU Command Element to Lead Middle East Special Purpose MAGTF

    When the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s command element leaves home later this year for...

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    Antiaccess for Sea Control The British Mining Campaign in World War I

    The British experience contains lessons that still apply to modern-day mine warfare.

     

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    The Navy's Crackerjack Superhero

    First appearing in the comic section in 1934, Don Winslow of the Navy would enjoy a two-decade run thrilling audiences, warning Americans...

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    On Our Scope

    Alfred Thayer Mahan once wrote, “The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.” Building...

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    Armaments & Innovations - Extending the DEW Line to Sea

     

    When the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic weapon in 1949, U.S. defense officials became concerned about a possible Soviet...

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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...
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    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...
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    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....
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    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. ...
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    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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    The Sooner the Syrian Civil War Ends, the Better

    As we enter the final stages of the Syrian Civil War, that nation is awash with armed factions; Syrian ethnic and religious factions, Russians,...

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    Inspiration in the Wake of Hurricane Florence

    Something about the majesty and power of natural disasters brings on a philosophical frame of mind. Today in New England we’re riding out the...

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    The Immaculate Degradation

    We talk a good talk about accountability. In some areas, say firing COs who fail for one reason or another, we do a good job. In other more...

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    ‘How We Won the Great Pacific War’

    In the May 2018 U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Navy Captain Dale Rielage published a “future history,” written as a firsthand account of a...

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    The Money Tells a Story

    DefenseNews has its 2018 Top-100 global defense companies out. As usual, China is off the list for reasons they cover in the article – so...

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    Operation Brushwood: Allied landings at Fedala, Morocco

      In this selection from Admiral O’Neill’s second interview at his home in Lusby, Maryland, on 4 April 1970, he describes some of...

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    Day 4- March 20- Saipan

    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...

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    On This Day-September 14th

    On this day in 1899 during the Philippine Insurrection Campaign, the gunboat, USS Concord, and the monitor, USS Monterey, capture two insurgent...

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    On This Day-September 5th

    On this day in 1776 the Navy adopts uniforms for officers. Enjoy this look back through naval history and the evolution of the uniform.  ...

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    The Cartoonist Who Predicted Pearl Harbor

    Featured in comics, novels, radio programs and film serials, Don Winslow of the Navy attracted legions of fans throughout the 1930s and 1940s. The...

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    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...
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