Romney’s Navy Plan
This week in a speech in Virginia, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney talked about his plan to build a 350-ship Navy, boosting spending on…
Russia Delays Indian Carrier Again
The Russian navy was in parlous straits during the 1990s and the early 2000s. Suffering a series of spectacular disasters including, the sinking of…
ABC’s ‘Last Resort’ – Submariner Critique
The new ABC drama Last Resort puts the crew of the USS Colorado, a fictional Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine, at odds with a secret…
MRAPs On the Way Out
On Monday the Pentagon ceased production of the Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle (MRAP), perhaps the most iconic acquisition program of the past ten years.…
World Naval Developments: Royal Navy’s Type 26: One Ship, Many Missions
Proceedings, Oct. 2012 In August, the Royal Navy released details of its next surface combatant, the Type 26, a modular ship. Announced plans are…
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 on Monday. A little…
Clearing Syrian WMDs Means 75K Troops and Massive Air Strikes
In July, Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid Mullalem declared that Syria’s stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons would go unused in its civil war –…
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) of the future look…
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 Forbes. The U.S. Navy’s…
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 need more time to…
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 to make the Navy…
Atlantic Naval Forces Have a Future
Since Congress passed the “Two-Ocean Navy Bill” in 1940, the U.S. Navy has been sized to operate simultaneously in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.…