June 15, 2012

The Jeannette Expedition

June 15, 2012 10:05 PM - Updated: February 5, 2013 7:37 PM
Excerpted from U.S. Naval Institute’s The U.S. Navy and The Arctic Question  On July 8, 1879 USS Jeannette, a barque rigged, propeller driven…

BAMS Down

June 15, 2012 10:05 PM - Updated: January 15, 2013 1:55 PM
One of the U.S. Navy’s largest and most expensive unmanned aerial vehicles crashed in the Chesapeake Bay under unknown circumstances…

The Return of the Privateers

June 15, 2012 10:05 PM - Updated: February 5, 2013 1:25 PM
Alfred Thayer Mahan is credited as saying: “War is business, to which actual fighting is incidental.” These words speak to…

The Rise of the Narco Navy

June 15, 2012 7:59 PM - Updated: February 5, 2013 1:24 PM
Somali pirates and Iranian irregular warfare craft are well known to naval audiences, but the narco navy deserves equal infamy…

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