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Can China and the U.S. Avoid War?

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Former Prime Minister of Australia
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Honor Cannot Be Divided

By Midshipman First Class Noah Johnston, U.S. Navy
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Professional Notes: Environmental Prediction Is a Weapon System

Typhoon Neoguri near Okinawa, Japan, July 2014. More accurate weather forecasting is an operational and tactical advantage. (U.S. Navy)

Professional Notes: The Marine Corps Needs Hybrid-Electric Vehicles

The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle at the U.S. Marine Corps Transportation Demonstration Support Area in Quantico, Virginia. These vehicles can be...

Can China and the United States Avoid War?

China’s Belt and Road Initiative involves direct investment and infrastructure improvements in countries, cities, and ports across Asia...

Security Cooperation for the 21st Century

Rear Admiral Joey Tynch, U.S. Navy, and Major Walee Roslie, Royal Brunei Air Force, during last month's Cooperation Afloat Readiness and...

Proceedings Today Photo of the Week: 7 December 2018

Sailors assigned to the guided-missile destroyer USS Thomas Hudner (DDG-116) man the rails as the ship comes to life during its commissioning...

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John Kelly, Retired Marine 4-Star, Will Step Down as White House Chief of Staff

Retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly will step down as President Donald Trump’s chief of staff...

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Milley Selected To Be Next Chairman of Joint Chiefs

U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley speaks to Soldiers at Qayyarah Airfield West, Iraq...

VIDEO: U.S. Navy Commemoration of Attack on Pearl Harbor

The following is a U.S. Navy presentation commemorating the 77th anniversary of the attack of...

Coast Guard Commandant Hopeful FY 2019 DHS Budget Will Be Approved With Icebreaker Funding

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl Schultz is guardedly optimistic his...

Marines Identify Hornet Pilot Who Died After Crash with KC-130J off Japan; 5 Marines Still Missing

The Marines have identified the F/A-18D Hornet pilot who died in a hospital after a crash with a...

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As I Recall

Vice Admiral Bernard L. Austin (1902–79) had a distinguished naval career that included service in World War II, the Korean War, and the...

Bluejacket's Manual — The Bullseye: 'Navigating' within a Ship

Just as a town or city has a system using street signs and addresses to help you find your way around, so does a Navy ship. Each space in a Navy...

Book Reviews

Engines of Rebellion: Confederate Ironclads and Steam Engineering in...

In Contact

Pacific ‘Gem’s’ Rescue Role

Commander Thomas “Duke” Wayne, U.S. Naval Reserve (Retired)

Museum Report: The Torpedo Bay Navy Museum

The Royal New Zealand Navy’s Torpedo Bay Navy Museum, on a bluff overlooking Waitemata Harbour at the east end of King Edward Parade in...

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....

Featured Content

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

On Midrats 9 December 2018 – Episode 466: The USN’s Labs, Research Facilities, and Ranges with Mark Vandroff

Please join us at 5pm (EST) for Midrats Episode 466: The USN’s Labs, Research Facilities, and Ranges with Mark Vandroff With budget fights...

A Maritime Requirements Picture Book

You really don’t have to read a lot of tea leaves or pay seven figures to contractors to figure out what kind of navy the Chinese are trying...

An Offbeat Take on Putin and the Sea of Azov

Amazing how often analogies from one discipline help you make sense of what transpires in another. Exhibit A: Russian shenanigans in the Kerch...

Winning the Joint Fight

The most likely high-end fight in the near future would be the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC) attempting to annex the South China Sea, coerce...

On Midrats 2 December 2018 – Episode 465: Russian, Ukraine, and the Challenge for the West, with Emma Ashford

Please join us at 5pm EST on 2 December 2018 for Midrats Episode 465: Russian, Ukraine, and the Challenge for the West, with Emma Ashford The...

Naval History Blog

The Sinking of the USS Nevada (BB-36)

On the morning of 7 December 1941, than Ensign Charles Merdinger awoke to alarms and stepped through his socks in his haste to get to his...

Innovation In Difficult Times

In 1868, the Meiji Restoration in Japan began a fundamental shift in Japan’s conception of its place in the world.[i] This shift was catalyzed by...

The Spirit and the Fortitude of the 39th Battalion

In his war commentary, Bellum Gallicum, Julius Caesar wrote, “In war great events are the results of small causes.” History is replete with...

Unadilla-Class Gunboats

Did you know that today, on the 28th of November, 1863, the USS Chippewa convoyed the Army transports Monohansett and Mayflower up Skull Creek,...

Day 7- March 23- Guam

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...

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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...