Jay Stefany to Lead Navy’s New Maritime Industrial Base Program Office
The Navy is standing up a new maritime industrial base program office and has tapped one of its career civil servants to take the helm.…
Allen on ISIS Fight: ‘We’ll Do Mosul When We’re Ready’
Quoting the Iraqi prime minister that “we’ll do Mosul when we’re ready,” the special presidential envoy to the Global Coalition…
Navy Kicks Off Year-Long Celebration of Navy Reserve Centennial
In a ceremony at the Pentagon on Monday, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Jonathan Greenert and Chief of Navy Reserve…
U.S. Officially Ends Special Operations Task Force in the Philippines, Some Advisors May Remain
This post has been updated to include additional comments from U.S. Special Operations Command, Pacific. The U.S. special operations mission…
SECNAV Mabus: Pace of ‘Fat Leonard’ Investigations is ‘Frustrating’
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The length of the ongoing Department of Justice (DoJ) “Fat Leonard” investigation into alleged corruption by U.S.…
Document: Report to Congress on ISIS and U.S. Policy
The following is the Feb. 11, 2015 Congressional Research Service report, “The ‘Islamic State’ Crisis and U.S. Policy.”…
Opinion: Maintaining American Seapower
Facing an increasing array of threats and demands even as our budgetary situation grows more challenging, it is clear that…
New Heritage Foundation Study Ranks U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Strength as ‘Marginal’
A newly created “Index of Military Strength” rates the Navy and Marine Corps as “marginal” in being able two fight…
AEI Panel: U.S. Should Do More to Quell Sectarian Divide in Iraq
“No one is advocating re-invading Iraq” or sending the United States down “a slippery slope to have 200,000 troops in…
Document: SECDEF Carter’s Welcome Message to Pentagon
The following is Secretary of Defense Ash Carter’s welcome message to Department of Defense personnel on Feb. 17, 2015 —…
Love is in the Air, MH-60S Delivers Surprise Engagement
SAN DIEGO, CALIF. – As missions go, this one was easy: Fly an MH-60S Knighthawk across San Diego Bay so the…