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    U.S. & Japan Can Counter Chinese A2/AD By Captain Takuya Shimodaira, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force  
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    Childhood Adversity Impacts the Corps
    New findings suggest that challenging and traumatic experiences during formative years may lead to harmful outcomes as adults. Identifying at-risk...
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    Now Hear This: The Navy is Unprepared for Analog War
    When electronics fail, the Navy must be able to fall back on analog equivlents, such as the marine sextant, to navigate, communicate, and fight. 
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    Know Your Enemy. Know Yourself.
    To better understand the environment, reduce adversary surprise, and improve performance, the Navy’s maritime operations centers need a...
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    HASC Subcommittee Marks Recommend Additional Navy Ship Buys, Multi-Year Aircraft Deals

    CAPITOL HILL – The House Armed Services Committee released sections of its Fiscal Year 2019...

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    Document: Pentagon Not Sharing Operational Lessons from F-35 Deployment

    The following is the April 25, 2018 Government Accountability Office report, Warfighter Support...

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    LCS Mission Package Testing on Track to Support IOC Dates in 2019, 2021

    Navy testing of its Littoral Combat Ship mission package technologies is on track for two...

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    CNO: Lessons from Zumwalt-class Key to Next Surface Combatant

    CAPITOL HILL – Major parts from the Navy’s abbreviated class of Zumwalt destroyers (DDG-1000)...

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    51 Years Later, Fallen Vietnam Marine Honored With Silver Star

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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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    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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    Are you prepared to fight in silence

    Always ask yourself, “Are my convenient assumptions garbage?” We train, man, and equip our forces based on a lot of assumptions. Not...

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    Restructure the Coast Guard Reserves into Support Roles

    The time has come to examine and consider restructuring the role of Coast Guard Reserves within the service. Currently, there is not enough time...

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    On Midrats 22 April 2018- Episode 433: Reform, Readiness and the Navy’s Path Ahead, with Dr. James Holmes

    Please join us at 5pm EDT on 22 April 2018 for Midrats Episode 433: Reform, Readiness and the Navy’s Path Ahead, with Dr. James Holmes How...

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    Cheer Up Admiral Sims!! There Still is No Naval War College

    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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    John Paul Jones and the North Channel Naval Duel

    Dear reader, have you heard of John Paul Jones? Prior to working at the Naval Institute, I would have an easier time discussing Davey Jones than...

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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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    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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