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Hybrid Warfare Helps Russia Level the Playing Field
By Major Valerie McGuire, U.S. Marine Corps
Despite a defense budget less than a tenth the size of the United States’, Russia has honed...
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Innovative Thinking to Retain Women
By Lieutenant Commander Brooke Millard, U.S. Coast Guard
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The Mirage of Mission Command
By Commander Carl Graham, U.S. Navy (Retired)
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Sea Stories Strengthen the Navy
By Master Chief David C. DiPietro, U.S. Navy
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Silence Is Not the Order of the Day
By Captain Kevin Eyer, U.S. Navy (Retired)
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Editor's Page
By Captain Bill Hamblet, U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Wow! It seems very sudden that I find myself the editor-in-chief of Proceedings, and I am blessed and humbled by the opportunity. After my retirement from the Navy in 2016, I joined the Proceedings team feeling like I had landed...
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CEO Notes
By Admiral Peter H. Daly
The focus of this month’s Proceedings is the Coast Guard. I am proud of the deep connection between the Naval Institute and the Coast Guard—a connection that grows stronger every year with more “orange and white”...
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Now Hear This: Send the Best Officers to the Naval War College
By Captain Jamie McGrath, U.S. Navy
Aside from a curriculum focused at the operational and strategic levels of war, an in-residence war college course offers invaluable face-to...
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Recruit Millennials to Replenish the Coast Guard Reserve
By Petty Officer Second Class Thea Nielsen, U.S. Coast Guard Reserve
Coast Guard reservists receive a host of military benefits that the service could promote to attract recruits over the age of 21...
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Rescue 21:10 Years, 100,000 Lives Saved
By Vice Admiral John P. Currier, U.S. Coast Guard (Retired)
The Rescue 21 radio network allows skilled Coast Guard operators to geolocate the source of Mayday transmissions. Rescue boats and...
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War and Peace Helps Us Read History
By Captain Bill Bray, U.S. Navy (Ret.)
To Tolstoy, theories of history are a fultile attempt to impose order on chaos. He rejects in particular the "great-man"...
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Veteran Reintegration Begins on Day One
By Lieutenant Commander Kevin S. Bemel, Chaplain Corps, U.S. Navy Reserve
Instilling an "us versus them" view toward civilians can hinder sailors' and Marines' transition when they leave the...
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The Manned-Unmanned Team: Training the Operator
By Lieutenant Commander David “DB” Barnhill, U.S. Navy
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Deep-Six Paper Charts
By Lieutenant Commander Andy Storey, Royal Navy (Retired)
Using current technology, all available and enabled positioning sources, whether GPS or an inertial platform, are displayed in real time...
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C2C24 Transforms Navy Operations
By Rear Admiral Danelle Barrett, U.S. Navy
The Navy’s new C2C24 architecture synchronizes advanced data analytics to provide unprecedented...
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Sea Control Will Be Expensive For China
By Norman Friedman
From top: The Chinese destroyer Jinan (DDG-152) and frigate Yiyang (FFG-548), and the U.S. destroyer USS Mason (DDG-87), cruiser USS...
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Combat Fleets of the World
By Eric Wertheim
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New Strike Missile Gives LCS, FFG(X) Bigger Teeth
By Edward J. Walsh
The subsonic Naval Strike Missile flies at wave-top height and has no active seeker, making it very difficult to detect or defend...
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Harpoon Missiles with a Coast Guard Stripe
By A. Denis Clift
On Admiral Paul Yost's watch, the USCGC Mellon (WHEC-717) gained distinction as the only Coast Guard cutter to fire a Harpoon...
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Book Reviews: August 2018
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I Found My Voice
By Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard Vince Patton, U.S. Coast Guard (Retired)
The Naval Sea Cadet program was fairly new, at least in the Detroit area, when I joined in September 1969. I stumbled upon it while attending my weekly Boy Scout Troop meeting, when our assistant scoutmaster, James Hannan, told me he also was...
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Confidence to Accomplish a Life-Long Dream
By Special Operations Chief Michael Vollmer, U.S. Navy Reserve
It was 1997 and my mother, acutely aware of my restless need for adventure, showed me a newspaper article detailing the summer training a local Naval Sea Cadet unit participated in. I was unsure what this program entailed, but I knew the idea of...
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Coast Guard Aviation, 1915-1916
By Master Chief William R. Wells II, U.S. Coast Guard (Retired)
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From Local Law Enforcer to Global Responder: 228 years of Coast Guard Transformation
By William H. Thiesen, PhD
Rare photo of Coast Guard boat station crew in World War I uniforms (U.S. Coast Guard)
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Invest In Our Nation's Future Leaders
By Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard Vince Patton, U.S. Coast Guard (Retired), Special Operations Chief Mike Vollmer, U.S. Navy Reserve, and Lieutenant Commander Grant Thomas, U.S. Coast Guard
Military youth programs like the Naval Sea Cadet Corps help build the nation’s future leaders. Active-duty and reserve units...
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UAVs: Before Fire Scout There Was DASH
Captain Thomas Pinney, U.S. Navy (Retired)
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Optimism Defines Winners
By Vice Admiral A. H. Konetzni, Jr. U.S. Navy (Retired)
As I contemplate past successes and failures in the Navy and the corporate world, I am reminded of a common thread intertwined between all...
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NATO-Japan Maritime Cooperation Can Respond to Global Challenges
By Lieutenant Commander Yusuke Saito, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Japan and NATO have much to gain from increased naval partnership. Here, HMS Sutherland (foreground)...
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What the Truman Deployment Says About Unpredictability
By Commander Jim Lewis and Captain Robby Harris, U.S. Navy (Retired)
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The Navy and the High North
By Lieutenant Commander Rachael Gosnell, U.S. Navy
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Photo of the Week: 3 August 2018
