Report to Congress on Marine Littoral Regiment
The following is the Jan. 10, 2025, Congressional Research Service Insight report, The U.S. Marine Corps Marine Littoral Regiment (MLR).…
Bob Work on Future Surface Forces
Navy Under Secretary Robert Work torpedoed nostalgia for a 600-ship Navy on Thursday, arguing that today’s Sea Service would far…
USCG’s Adm. Papp on Arctic Operations and Caribbean Drug Runners
Even as the Coast Guard gets a grip on the Arctic, drug smugglers in the eastern Pacific are slipping through…
Navy Responds to Pentagon LCS Survivability Claims
Navy leadership responded Wednesday to a Tuesday Pentagon report saying both variants of the littoral combat ship (LCS) are “not…
Commander Surface Force: Navy is Risking a Hollow Surface Fleet
The head of naval surface forces fears the sea service is teetering dangerously close to an operational cliff where ships…
How a Defense Bill Becomes Defense Law
Congress closed its 2010-2012 session by passing a fiscal package that delays deep cuts to the defense budget and other…
Oceans: Putting up the ‘Keep Out’ Signs
Proceedings, January 2013 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are designated sites found throughout the World Ocean that are set aside for…
This Time, It’s Different
Proceedings, January 2013 A close observer of defense-spending trends takes a look at dollars and sense and the looming budget…
Historic Aircraft – A Dart From The Sea
Naval History Magazine, Dec. 2012 From the 1920s into World War II several nations developed high-performance floatplane aircraft. Indeed, some…
Historic Fleets – The Saga of the Williebee
Naval History Magazine, December 2012 Shortly before the end of the midwatch on 8 December 1941, a radioman on board…