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Shipbuilding: A Deep Dive

February 2025
This issue focuses on naval shipbuilding—perhaps more urgent than the need for a new naval strategy is the need for more capacity and greater discipline in shipbuilding.
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CEO Notes

February 2025
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An unmanned surface vessel, the USCGC Charles Moulthrope (WPC-1141), the dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Amelia Earhart (T-AKE-6), and the guided-missile destroyer USS Thomas Hudner (DDG-116) transit the Strait of Hormuz in August 2023.

What Is UNCLOS?

By Lieutenant Commander James Halsell, U.S. Navy
February 2025
Maritime claims the world over are governed by a treaty too often undermined by signatories (and defended by a non-party).

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