Navy Meets Active-Duty Recruiting Goals Early
The Navy met its Fiscal Year 2025 recruiting three months early, Secretary of the Navy John Phelan announced in the video via social media site X.…
Naval Systems: Antiship Missile Moves Toward Flight Test
Proceedings, Oct. 2012 Lockheed Martin’s Missiles and Fire Control business unit started a series of airborne “captive-carry” testing in May…
Navy, Marine Corps Reprogramming Clears Way for Nuclear Refuelings to Continue
The future of certain Navy and Marine Corps programs remain in doubt while a temporary legislative funding measure takes effect…
Trends in Hybrid and Irregular Warfare
Proceedings, September 2012 Savvy adversaries are more capable than ever of using high-tech gadgets and social media against the United…
U.S. Leading Largest Mine Exercise in Recent Memory
Sea mines are historically the most dangerous threat to naval vessels. Since World War II, 15 U.S. Navy ships have…
A New Kind of Carrier Air Wing
Proceedings, September 2012 What types of aircraft will be deployed on tomorrow’s flattops? What should the carrier air wing (CVW)…
False Flags: A History
The term False Flags has been used frequently related to the recent Taliban assault on Camp Bastion in Afghanistan. We…
Smaller U.S. Fleet Requires a Pacific Focus
This article is a response to “Atlantic Naval Forces Have a Future,” written on Sept. 10, 2012 by J. Randy…
Pending Congressional Budget Measure Could Hurt Navy and Marines
The Federal government’s fiscal year comes to an end on September 30, and for the sixth straight time, lawmakers will…
The Fundamentals of Surface Warfare: Sailors and Ships
Adm. John C. Harvey Jr., the outgoing commander of U.S. Fleet Forces, sent the following message to U.S. Navy surface…
Outgoing Fleet Forces CO: ‘I Could Have Done Better’
More than a decade ago, Navy leaders decided to abandon historic standards for ship-manning levels and for shipboard maintenance, supposedly…