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The Coast Guard’s long-sought heavy icebreaker, the Polar Security Cutter, was among the programs to receive funding when Congress passed a spending...
We've weathered another mid-term election, though not without one major casualty—Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. After six years as Pentagon chief and architect of the war in Iraq, Mr...
We've weathered another mid-term election, though not without one major casualty—Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. After six years as Pentagon chief and architect of the war in Iraq, Mr. Rumsfeld was asked by the President to step down...
Firing on the Up Roll: When To Hold And When To Fold
By Harlan Ullman
At times, waging PLMCC can be nearly as dangerous for admirals and generals as waging war. Take the line between civilian and military control. Crossing that boundary is not unlike entering a minefield or no-man's land in war. And in this...
By Lieutenant Colonel Brian Hanley, U.S. Air Force
Our current Joint Forces Staff College receives failing grades. We need to replace it with one posessing true intellectual heft, serious students, and a top-notch faculty.
After 20 years a new maritime strategy if being crafted for the new century. But those charged with drafting it are finding that the challenges the nation faces today present obstacles no one could have imagined two decades ago...
By Eric Wertheim, Editor, <i>Combat Fleets of the World</i>
On 12 July 2006, the second of France's Forbin-class guided-missile destroyers, Chevalier Paul (named for the naval hero better known in the United States as John...
North Korea's detonation of a nuclear device in October, and threats to test fire nuclear missiles present the United States with no useful military option, but has finally sent enough of a chill down Chinese spines that we may be able to do...
Problems can result when chaplains are not preaching to the choir.
An active-duty Navy chaplain, Lieutenant Gordon Klingenschmitt, went on an 18-day hunger strike in front of the White House earlier this year. His complaint: the...
By Captain Thomas B. Grassey, U.S. Naval Reserve (Retired)
A professor of leadership and ethics at the Naval War College outlines the real reasons for prisoner abuse and lays out ways military leaders can keep such things from happening.
As the Department of Defense (DoD) prosecutes the war on terrorism, the U.S. Marine Corps finds itself nice again at a crossroad. Will the Corps continue to provide this nation with a second land...
The Power Systems Group of SPD Technologies, a unit of L-3 Communications, plans to deliver by year's end a 500-kilowatt motor drive demonstration unit. The Naval Surface Warfare Center/Carderock Division's land-based test site in...
World Naval Developments: North Korea's Nuclear Strategy
By Norman Friedman, Author, The Naval Institute Guide to World Naval Weapon Systems
On 9 October North Korea carried out its long-awaited underground nuclear test-or did it?. It took various governments quite some time to decide that the test had indeed occurred, partly because the yield, as measured by seismograph, was only...
By Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. Cutler, U.S. Navy (Retired); Lieutenant Commander Rick Burgess, U.S. Navy (Retired)
In the early 1990s, a 70-year-old retired admiral stood before a large contingent of midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy and challenged them to an unlikely competition. He asked who could beat him in a one-arm push-up contest. If that were not...
Boxing has been a tradition in the military services, especially in the Navy. Matches, such as this on board an unidentified warship during World War II, were especially popular as evident from the rows of...