Both Obama and Romney Proposals Don’t Meet Navy Requirements
In the run-up to Election Day, both campaigns have put an increased focus on national security, foreign policy and defense…
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…
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…
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…
Birth of the Littoral Combat Ship
Proceedings, September 2012 In a series of 1990s simulations, the LCS concept was born; the Strait of Hormuz was the…
America’s Small Stick Diplomacy
We might rephrase Theodore Roosevelt’s famous saying about “big stick” diplomacy thusly: Speak softly and carry a small stick, and…