Craig Allen Jr.

Coast Guard Essay Contest—First Prize, Sponsored by Susan Curtin and the U.S. Naval Institute. The service must invest in cutter self-sustainability as missions become more global.

With fewer Coast Guardsmen choosing to go to sea, the cutter fleet is facing rough waters.

The service must reprioritize increased readiness so it is ready to join the joint force in a future fight.

The Coast Guard must prioritize improving underway connectivity to realize its full potential.

The United States must prepare for the threat of underwater drones.

At the core of the Coast Guard’s identity as a multimission service is the careful balance among its military, law enforcement, and humanitarian roles. Those roles occasionally conflict, requiring the ...

Expeditionary maritime operations that fall short of open warfare are inherently dangerous for the unprepared.

The U.S. Coast Guard should be adequately resourced to deploy as an essential agent of our maritime strategy. In 1907 President Theodore Roosevelt deployed a great white fleet of 16 ...

Restarting Mk-48 Production poised to restart production of its heavyweight antisurface and antisubmarine warfare weapon, the Torpedo Mk-48 MOD 7 Common Broadband Advanced Sonar System (CBASS). The last all-up round ...

With multiple missions and greater challenges ahead, the Sentinel class is set to “redefine the patrol boat’s role.”

Commandant Admiral Thad Allens mandate for Coast Guard men and women to embrace a Guardian Ethos faces some hurdles.