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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...
If it's true that you really don't appreciate what you have until it's gone, then we could find ourselves saying that about the U.S. Coast Guard someday. Many citizens of both the...
If it's true that you really don't appreciate what you have until it's gone, then we could find ourselves saying that about the U.S. Coast Guard someday. Many citizens of both the United States and the world (and perhaps some of our...
By Captain Gordan Evans Van Hook, U.S. Navy (Retired)
As many readers are no doubt aware, over 90 percent of the world's trade travels by sea in more than 50,000 merchant ships registered in over 150 nations. Most of these ships travel within their own domes of awareness, sharing little...
Nobody Asked Me, But...Sometimes the Insignificant Is Significant
By Captain R. L. Crossland, U.S. Navy (Retired)
To rescue Captain Richard Phillips of the merchant vessel Maersk Alabama in April 2009, the rescue force needed to maintain communication with the pirates, secure their cooperation, reduce their level of vigilance, and take the ship's...
Answering the Call: From Supply Officer to Corporate CEO
By A. G. Lafley
In the business world, A. G. Lafley is well-known as the chairman of the board (and former CEO) of Procter & Gamble Co., the giant Cincinnati-based household goods manufacturer. But he got his start in business running the Navy Exchange at a...
By Captain Andrew C. A. Jampoler, U.S. Navy (Retired)
At the height of the Cold War, an unlikely coalition of aircraft from the Coast Guard, the Navy, and the Air Force, along with a Soviet fishing trawler, battled heavy northern Pacific weather in an effort to save the crew of a...
The U.S. Navy has led Combined Joint Task Force humanitarian and training efforts in the Horn of Africa for more than six years. Now it's time to return to mission number one: maintaining freedom of the seas.
This critical field of research is in urgent need of attention.
Studying the oceans has repeatedly benefited the United States, from helping the Navy track and destroy German U-boats to assisting American energy companies...
By Norman Polmar, Author, Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates must be congratulated for his recent recommendations that will cut certain Defense programs he feels are not appropriate for today's conflicts, and accelerating others he believes are relevant. His...
Surface warfare leaders met at the Little Creek, Virginia, Naval Amphibious Base early this summer to find new ways to speed up procurement of fast, high-performance combat craft that they say are critical to meeting the Navy's role in...
The United Kingdom celebrated its first Armed Forces Day late in June. The Telegraph marked the occasion with an op-ed by Thomas Harding to the effect that "big guns," i.e., conventional high-tech weapons will not win "today's...
India's navy recently sent a four-ship task group on an extensive four-month deployment intended to increase cooperation while taking part in training and visiting ports in Asia, Africa, and Europe. Headed by the Project-15...
By Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. Cutler, U.S. Navy (Retired)
Just days before the beginning of the War of 1812, Secretary of the Navy Paul Hamilton met with the ranking officers of the U.S. Navy to discuss how best to fight the most powerful navy on earth. Stephen Decatur and other more junior captains...
Earlier this year, the Tawani Foundation of Chicago pledged to match all gifts-up to $40,000-that the Naval Institute Foundation raises for the Oral History Program between February and October 2009. With three...
This past January, the rules changed for Sailors with more than 20 years of service. NAVADMIN 030/09 announced career continuation boards for chief, senior chief, and master chief petty officers. Annual boards, starting next month, have an...