Naval War College (NWC) holds a graduation ceremony on March 3, 2020. US Navy Photo
The Navy’s higher education programs are still developing COVID-19 mitigation strategies for fall classes – a little more than a month before officers and midshipmen start arriving at campuses. Read More
March 27, 2020 image of a Chinese Installation on Fiery Cross Reef in the South China Sea. CSIS Image
China is tightening its grip on disputed claims in the South China Sea by beefing up its military capability and planting the seeds of long-term habitability on the artificial islands at the core of its regional economic influence strategy.
Rear Adm. Jeffrey Harley, president, US Naval War College, speaks on Aug. 14, 2017. US Navy Photo
The president of the U.S. Naval War College has been reassigned while he is the subject of a Navy Inspector General investigation, the service announced on Monday. Read More
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Steven Giordano visit the “Dusty Dogs” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 7 on March 1, 2018. Richardson and Giordano met with leadership, held an all-hands call and awarded several Sailors for their humanitarian assistance efforts for the victims of hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria in Texas, Puerto Rico,and the Virgin Islands. US Navy photo.
NEWPORT, R.I. – As the Navy prepares for great power competition on the seas, it will rely more than ever on capable leaders that command trust up and down the chain of command and can win with or without being networked in with the rest of the fleet, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson told USNI News. Read More
Sailors assigned to the Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate USS Elrod (FFG-55) pose for a photo in front of the ship before her decommissioning ceremony at Naval Station Norfolk in 2015. US Navy Photo
WASHINGTON, D.C. – While all options are on the table in the Navy’s push to field a 355-ship fleet, when it comes to reactivating ships in the inactive fleet, the service is realistically only looking at seven decommissioned Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates (FFG-7), Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson told USNI News on Thursday. Read More
USS Kauffman (FFG 59) decommissioning ceremony in 2015. US Navy Photo
Studies are underway to “take a hard look” at putting eight mothballed Oliver Hazard Perry frigates back into service as well as extending the life of existing Arleigh Burke guided-missile destroyers to help the Navy reach its goal of a 355-ship fleet, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson said on Tuesday. Read More
An MH-60R Seahawk, attached to the “Warbirds” of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 49, flies over the guided-missile destroyers USS Spruance (DDG 111) and USS Momsen (DDG 92), two of the three guided-missile destroyers deployed in a U.S. 3rd Fleet Pacific Surface Action Group (PAC SAG). US Navy photo.
“We have to stop thinking of adversary maritime forces as ‘threats’ and instead what they really are: ‘targets’ for our increasingly lethal, distributed surface, amphibious, and submarine forces,” Dr. William Bundy, director of the Gravely Group at the Naval War College, asserted during a recent interview. Read More
Vice Adm. Thomas Rowden, Commander of Naval Surface Forces. US Navy photo.
The Navy is trying to understand how its distributed lethality concept for its surface force will affect not only the behavior of an adversary but also the behavior of Navy commanders through a series of ongoing wargames. Read More
Under the auspices of the Defense Innovation Initiative, announced by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel before he left office, Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work has sounded a call to revive the practice of wargaming in the Department of Defense. In a memo issued Feb. 9, Work announced plans to “reinvigorate, institutionalize, and systematize wargaming across the Department.”
This memo is a vital first step, and should instigate a Navy wide re-examination of when, why, and how we conduct these evolutions across the force. Lessons learned a century ago demonstrate that the Navy should take the memo’s intent on board, but must go even further than Mr. Work’s suggestions in order to maximize the warfighting ability and innovative spirit of the fleet. Read More
An undated image of Iraqi Security Forces.
No one blames President Richard Nixon and his Vietnamization policy for the disastrous collapse of South Vietnam in April of 1975. Read More
