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A Christmas Eve Mass for the Living (See C. Fuss, pp. 68–69, December 2018)

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The Cyber Issue! This month’s focus is on cyber warfare, and many of the feature articles are fruits of the Naval Institute’s Cyber Essay...

Leadership Forum: Correct the Navy's Character Problem

The Navy should strengthen the character side of the Navy Leadership Development Framework to eradicate “goal sickness” and address long...

From Our Archive

“A good teacher, like a good entertainer, first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson.” John Henrik...

World Naval Developments: F-35B Expands Definition of 'Aircraft Carriers'

The helicopter-carrying Japanese destroyers Izumo (DDH-183), shown, and Kaga (DDH-184) will undergo modifications to allow them to carry F-35B...

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Navy Retooling Fire Scout Program to Focus on More Complex Warfare Missions

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Navy is rethinking how it will employ its emerging MQ-8C Fire Scout...

Panel: Navy Advancing Tactics, Adding New Weapons to Boost Combat Lethality

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Each Navy community is updating its tactics and weapons with lethality and a...

Naval Exercise Series Continues Push to Find Solutions for Modern Battlefield Problems

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Navy and Marine Corps are continuing a series of exercises to understand...

Report to Congress U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Procurement

The following is the Feb. 15, 2018 Congressional Research Service report, Coast Guard Cutter...

Destroyer USS Donald Cook Enters Black Sea for Second Time this Year

A Navy guided-missile destroyer is operating in the Black Sea after entering the region earlier...

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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

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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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Command Early Now to Command Better Later

Simply great news from the Riverine side of the house. There are so few LT and LCDR commands available, that each new opportunity is like that...

Measuring Readiness Means More Than Measuring What You Can Measure

“Readiness” is a concept fraught with peril. It connotes a family of data you can measure through observation and computation. It’s a concept...

The War on Suicide

Suicide. We all have had some run-in with it. Whether it be through our own actions or through a close family member or friend. Suicide has taken...

Salty Goes to Admiral’s Mast

Salty Goes to Admiral’s Mast By The Salty Millennial The following is an excerpt from the non-judicial punishment proceedings of The Salty...

Cheer Up!: Naval Education is More Than a Classroom

This week, Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer announced the results of the Education for Seapower (E4S) Study, which conducted a “clean sheet”...

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Days 10/11- March 26/27- Guam/Tokyo/Intrernational Dateline and Home

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...

CAC-7: Skeet for the Fleet

I am only 20 years old and the Soviets are going to shoot me down? That is NOT what I had in mind when our crew took off this morning! Like all...

A Step Forward

On 15 March 1947, one month to the day before Jackie Robinson became the first black player in baseball’s major leagues, John Wesley Lee Jr....

The Loss of the USS Macon, 12 February 1935

Following graduation from the Naval Academy in 1924, Harold B. Miller spent two years in the crew of the battleship USS California (BB-44)...

What to do when your commander burns his own perfectly good fleet?

If you ever find yourself in command of an invading army, and surrounded by a numerically superior enemy hell-bent on your destruction, it is...

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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...