Examining the pre-WWII roots of the LCS and HSV.
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Informed thought on naval strategy, global power, and the maritime commons. By navalists, thinkers, strategists and citizens. Since 2016.
Informed thought on naval strategy, global power, and the maritime commons. By navalists, thinkers, strategists and citizens. Since 2016.
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Looking beyond the hardware into the paradoxes of China's naval rise. Part two of a three-part series.
Looking beyond the hardware into the paradoxes of China's naval rise. Part one of a three-part series.
What's in a name? Would that which we call a destroyer, by any other name would be as sleek?
For hundreds of years, ships of the line, and later, battleships, ruled the waves. Over the past half century, they've come back from retirement several times. Could they make one last appearance?
We have met the enemy and it is us. A discussion of what the third offset is actually offsetting.
Are technologies really "game-changing" or is altering the way of warfare simply the norm? Guest Author Keith Patton discusses.
Unpacking the February 8th unsafe encounter between a US P-3C and Chinese AWACS.
The United States has been operating without a Grand Strategy for nearly 25 years. But where there is uncertainty, there is also opportunity.
A discussion of the implications of this worrisome and unprecedented escalation.
No longer is Washington able to resource the various elements of national power to maintain the global preponderance to which we have been accustomed since 1945. So, what sort of military—the costliest element—can affordably and best serve 21st century American interest in the long-term?
A few thoughts about what this incident might mean… and how it echoes the past.
The US learned some hard lessons in World War II about going to war; leaders today should take note.
