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Don’t Oversell Directed Energy Weapons

The Navy cannot prioritize developing directed energy weapons over traditional weapons such as the Standard Missile 6 shown here firing from the USS...

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...

New Tech Will Take the Navy beyond Mines

Let Your Sailors Fix It!

In a high-end battle, a commanding officer may have to fight his or her ship in a communications-denied environment. If battle damage is taken,...

Charting the Course: Face the Hypersonic Truth

Russia and China are developing hypersonic weapons too "hot" for current U.S. Navy air defense weapons to handle. Here a Russian Kinzhal...

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China Sent Uninvited Spy Ship to Russian Vostok 2018 Exercise Alongside Troops, Tanks

Russia recently concluded the 2018 edition of the massive Vostok exercise series that included...

Marines at Camp Lejeune Rescue Nearby Civilians Threatened By Flooding

Before dawn Saturday, Marines used two hardback Humvees and two assault amphibian...

USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: Sept. 17, 2018

The USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker is sponsored by CNA. These are the approximate positions...

Navy Pauses Operations of MQ-4C Triton Squadron After Crash-Landing This Week

The Navy’s Unmanned Patrol Squadron (VUP) 19 is temporarily standing down operations while it...

China Expanding Economic Influence in Americas, Research in the Arctic

China’s drive for influence in the Western Hemisphere has zeroed in on economic gain,...

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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.

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...

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...

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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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...

‘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...

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...

Brandish America’s ‘Small Stick’

Congress and the Trump administration could do far worse than double or triple the size of the U.S. Coast Guard fleet. (Let’s hear no more about...

They Shoot Admirals, Don’t They?

Actually, the last admiral shot (in a democratic nation) was the unfortunate Admiral John Byng of the British Royal Navy, executed by a firing...

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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...

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...

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. ...

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...

A Sailor’s Best Friend: Dogs in the Military

While working on the U.S. Naval Institute’s photo digitization project, I happened upon a folder of photographs filled with something that...

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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...