Lieutenant Commander Herzinger is an Indo-Pacific Command foreign area officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve. He has been a Naval Institute Life Member since 2018.

Articles by Blake Herzinger

Pacific Partnership 2022 mission commander

The Navy Should Take More Academics to Sea

By Lieutenant Commander Blake Herzinger, U.S. Navy Reserve
January 2023
Allowing academics access to ships, aircraft, and sailors might help them bring new attention to issues of lagging maintenance, insufficient sleep, and a shrinking fleet.

Cyber Secrecy Undermines Deterrence

By Lieutenant Blake D. Herzinger, U.S. Navy
September 2016
Cyber operators can learn a succinct lesson on effective deterrence from Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 Cold War-era satire about nuclear war, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and ...