Sublieutenant Reilly is undergoing phase two training at the British Royal Naval College in Dartmouth. He recently returned from service on board HMS Spey, a Batch 2 offshore patrol vessel deployed in the Indo-Pacific region. In 2023 while a midshipman, he won the Trench Gascoigne Essay Prize, the Royal United Services Institute’s annual competition for original writing on contemporary issues of national and international defense and security.

Articles by Joseph Reilly

The aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush (CVN-77), front, sails with the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations.

Long Live the Aircraft Carrier

By Sub-Lieutenant Joseph Reilly, Royal Navy
January 2025
To assume an inability to secure sea control renders carriers obsolete is a gross misreading of maritime history, and it neglects the functions of fleets short of total war.