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    Rethinking the Naval Academy Curriculum
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    Where Have All the Warriors Gone?
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    U.S. & Japan Can Counter Chinese A2/AD
    Chinese antiaccess/area denial (A2/AD) capabilities in the Indo-Pacific region are alarming. China seeks to wield its growing might to...
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    Charting the Course: the U.S. Needs an Arctic Fleet
    Russia (here the nuclear-powered icebreaker 50 Years of Victory) and many other countries invest a great deal in the Arctic. The United States should...
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    Build an Island of Freedom By Captain Sam J. Tangredi, U.S. Navy (Retired)
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    CNO: Navy to Restore Readiness Levels by 2022 After Years of Insufficient Funding

    CAPITOL HILL — The Navy anticipates returning to a ready state by 2022, top leadership...

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    Truman Strike Group Enters Mediterranean Sea, Days After Syria Air Strikes

    The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group entered the U.S. 6th fleet area of operations Wednesday...

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    Report to Congress on Littoral Combat Ship Program

    The following is the April 5, 2018 Congressional Research Service report, Navy Littoral Combat...

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    Ambassador: Aegis Ashore Program Focused on Rogue States, Not Russia

    With Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defense systems set to operate in Poland by the end of the...

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    Navy’s Submarine Service Wants More Women

    The Navy’s silent service is making some noise about wanting more female enlisted sailors to...

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    A Promise Kept

    UPDATE: The wreckage of USS Helena (CL-50), the WWII-era St. Louis-class cruiser that survived the Japanese...

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    On Our Scope

    The admiral “had some maddening habits,” one of his staff officers recalled. “He would play golf all the afternoon then return,...

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    As I Recall - 'We Gave a Tremendous Amount to Britain'
    ‘We Gave a Tremendous Amount to Britain’

    Baldwin, for many years the military editor of The New York Times,...

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    In Contact

    Fiasco in the Barents Sea

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    Bluejacket's Manual - From Kamikazes to Tridents
    Missiles have been used militarily since World War II and are a major component of modern naval weaponry. Rockets have been in use...
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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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    In the May—June 1916 issue of Naval Institute Proceedings, then-Captain William S. Sims, U.S. Navy, wrote an article titled, “Cheer Up!! There is...

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    Last week saw a rather interesting rash of articles of alarm and concern that, well beyond the South China Sea, that China was building a “...

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    Why I Sanded Down The Best Looking Jet in the Navy

    *Editor’s note: This blog post is the text of a speech given by a commander to his squadron on the occasion of the “retiring” of...

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    Verifying Before Restoring the Trust in Shipboard Training

    Following U.S. Fleet Forces Command’s “Comprehensive Review of Surface Fleet Incidents” of 2017’s collisions and grounding, recommendations for...

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    Cooperation, Not Confrontation, In the Arctic

    The sea is emerging in the Arctic. Glaciers are receding. Permafrost is melting. Simultaneously, cruise ships are sailing virgin routes....

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    Side Glances at Operation Crossroads

    One of the benefits of digitized archives are the ability to call up pieces of the past that are physically apart from each other and see them all...

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    Cats in the Sea Services

    Sailors and cats have a special relationship that dates back thousands of years. It is likely that the ancient Egyptians were the first seafarers...

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    Seaplanes: The End (of the beginning)

    By the end of the war, the Navy had a number of advanced seaplane designs in the works – the JRM Mars and H-4 Hercules, the Spruce Goose, in...

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    World War II Submarine Commanders

    The United States Naval Institute Oral History Archive features the reminiscences of the legendary Captain Slade D. Cutter.  Cutter turned down a...

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    No Forgotten Fronts: From Classrooms to Combat

    My college classrooms are always full of veterans. That’s because San Diego is home to half a dozen military installations, including Naval Base...

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