What Russia’s New Sub Means
The Yuri Dolgoruky, Russia’s newest ballistic-missile submarine, officially entered service in the Northern Fleet on 17 January, completing a long and arduous journey into…
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 outmatch the peak Fleet…
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 its fingers, Commandant Adm.…
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 simply won’t be available…
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 executive branch agencies for…
China: Birth of a Global Force?
In 2010, Rear Admiral Zhang Huachen, China’s East Sea Deputy Commander, said, “With our naval strategy changing now, we are going from coastal defense…
Policy Difference Could Scuttle Second Virginia Submarine in 2014
Two weeks before budget-makers face the fiscal cliff deadline, there continues to be a great deal of uncertainty within the Pentagon. If the sequestration…
Timeline of the Polaris Missile
On late October 1963, USS Andrew Jackson launched first Polaris A-3 missile from a submerged submarine, off Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Polaris program served…
Syria’s War May Spill Over Into Lebanon
Lebanon is one of the few Middle Eastern countries left that hasn’t been thrown into turmoil by the “Arab Spring.” But with Syria next…
Biofuels in Congress
It’s been a little more than six months since two prominent Senate Armed Services Committee Republicans took aim at efforts underway within the Department…
J. Randy Forbes Talks Sequestration
Rep. J. Randy Forbes is chairman of the House Armed Services Readiness Subcommittee. The Virginia Republican has held several hearings on naval readiness in…
Combat Fleets: Final Lewis and Clark Launched
Proceedings, Jan. 2013 The U.S. Navy’s 14th and final Lewis and Clark –class dry-cargo/ammunition ship was delivered on 24 October. Built by General Dynamics…