U.S. Naval Institute

2018 U.S. Naval Institute Election »

USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: Dec. 10, 2018

Read More
General Prize Essay Contest

Read More
Can China and the U.S. Avoid War?

By the Honorable Kevin Rudd

Former Prime Minister of Australia
Read More
Honor Cannot Be Divided

By Midshipman First Class Noah Johnston, U.S. Navy
Read More
An honor to serve. A privilege to join. Become a member of the U.S. Naval Institute

Read More

USNI Periodicals
Top Editor Picks
Latest Blog Posts
From the Archives
Multimedia
Press

Proceedings

View the current Proceedings

‘Military to Mariner’ Program Bridges Merchant/Navy Gap

The Proceedings Podcast

Ten Seconds to Live or Die

“The difference between a good officer and a poor one is about ten seconds…”

More Comment & Discussion from December

The October Issue (See October 2018) I want to extend congratulations to the editorial staff for an outstanding edition of Proceedings, arguably the...

DoD Needs a Joint Cyber Red Team

USNI News

View all current articles

Navy’s Operational F-35C Squadron Declared ‘Safe for Flight;’ Can Prepare for Evaluations, IOC

The Navy’s first F-35C operational squadron completed its carrier qualifications and was deemed...

GAO: Navy Surface, Sub Repair Backlog Grew in 2018; 3 Attack Boats Now Not Certified to Dive

CAPITOL HILL – Maintenance backlogs continue to plague the Navy’s surface ship and attack...

GAO Report on Navy, Marine Corps Aviation and Ship Readiness

The following is the Dec. 12, 2018 written testimony of the Government Accountability Office on...

Marine Corps Identifies 5 Marines Killed in KC-130J Crash with Hornet Last Week

The Marine Corps identified the five Marines killed last week when their KC-130J Hercules...

Investigation Confirms WWI Cruiser USS San Diego Was Sunk by U-boat Mine

Steaming to New York with a belly full of coal, the armored cruiser USS San Diego (ACR-6) struck...

Naval History

View the current Naval History

Subscribe to Naval History

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

Behold the Clipper Ships!

Maritime encompasses far more than naval, and in fact the non-naval dimension of seafaring is what gives navies their overriding purpose. Were...

The Legacy of YG 84/85/86 Could Be: We Fixed Navy Manning!

This article is aimed at a very specific group of people—the ones I grew up with, those of us commissioned in Year Groups ‘84, ’85, and ‘86. Our 0...

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...

Naval History Blog

Angels of the Oriskany – August Moon Rescue

“If you went to Hong Kong, you went right by the Pratas Reef, where I crashed the H-2 trying to rescue some Chinese crewmen from an ore carrier,...

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,...

Featured Slideshows

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...