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Independent But Integrated

Although they appear to have disappeared from carrier strike group operations, submarines still are vitally connected to defense of the fleet—...

Where We Were

WHERE WE WERE

The Marine Corps Has a Drinking Problem

Bring Tactical Nukes Back to the Fleet

The USS Mustin (DDG-89) test fires a vertical-launch antisubmarine rocket (VL-ASRoc).

Proceedings Today Photo of the Week: 18 October 2018

A landing craft, air cushion (LCAC) assigned to Naval Beach Unit 7 approaches the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD-1) during night LCAC...

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Coast Guard, Shipbuilder Assessing Hurricane Damage to Yard Building Offshore Patrol Cutter

U.S. Coast Guard officials and Eastern Shipbuilding Group are still assessing the damage caused...

John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group Quietly Leaves for Deployment, Homeport Change

The John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group left Naval Base Kitsap last week for a deployment and...

Two U.S. Navy Warships Transit Taiwan Strait

THE PENTAGON – Two U.S. Navy warships transited the Strait of Taiwan on Monday, passing through...

USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: Oct. 22, 2018

These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and...

Navy’s New SSN(X) Attack Sub To Be Faster, More Lethal – And More Expensive

The Navy’s next class fast attack submarine will be designed for a return to blue-water great...

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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...

In Contact

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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...

Selected By Our Editors

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...

U.S. Naval Institute Blog

Task Force Tinian

The organic capabilities of the Marine air ground task force (MAGTF) are unique among the other branches of the US military and are idiosyncratic...

On Midrats 21 October 2018 – Episode 459: Crimes of Command with Michael Junge

Since WWII, how has the Navy’s understanding of responsibility, accountability, and culpability changed? Returning to Midrats for the full...

The DoD Policy on Marijuana Finally Makes Sense, Because I Am Way High

I just vaped some CBD oil, and I am out of my mind high right now. Now I totally get why DoD and the VA don’t want me, or anyone ever affiliated...

What is Chinese for Payloads Over Platforms?

Especially for some Old Cold Warriors, when they hear TU-16 Badger, they will generally think of the 66-year old design as something two...

Peering through the Mists in the Arctic

The Naval War College convened its second “Newport Arctic Seminar” this week to debate “principles of sea power” that ought to regulate...

Naval History Blog

The WEST-PAC Cruise From Hell

I enlisted in the U.S. Navy on my 17th birthday. Within four months I finished basic training, graduated from data processing school and reported...

Day 5- March 21- Tinian

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...

ACTION REPORT: HMAS Australia off Luzon

In October 1944 near the Philippine island of Leyte, Japan unleashed a powerful, unforeseen weapon against enemy warships—the kamikaze. During the...

Pea Island Lifesaving Crew’s Daring Rescue – 11 October 1896

The schooner E.S. Newman ran aground about two miles south of the Pea Island, North Carolina, life-saving station after losing it’s sails...

The Death of the Lone Ranger, USMC

In 1933, during the depths of the Great Depression, the “March of the Swiss Soldiers” finale from the William Tell overture came blaring over the...

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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...