Sam LaGrone | USNI
USNI News polled its writers, naval analysts and service members on what they consider the most important military and maritime stories in 2016.
Farsi Island Incident
Early in 2016, ten U.S. sailors strayed into the territorial waters of Iranian-controlled Farsi Island and were captured by Iranian Revolutionary Guard...
According to a report by the Daily Caller, former Democratic IT aide, Imran Awan, used his position as a congressional IT aide to to pressure local police to drop fraud charges against his father for writing seven fraudulent checks during the course of multiple land purchases.
One of the victims,...
First let's learn why “Level 4 Labs” like the Wuhan Virology Lab exist from the author of the 1989 Biological Weapons Convention, where the legal reasons for the existence of these Level 4 Labs began:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=JaN90kezbRA&feature=emb_title
I included this video featuring Sam Faddis, a man whom I've had communications with via...
Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D | Lexington Institute
Aircraft carriers are the preeminent expression of U.S. military power.
The United States is the only nation that operates a fleet of large-deck, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. With unlimited range and the capacity to destroy hundreds of surface targets per day, each of the ten carriers...
Sam LaGrone | USNI
An Iranian patrol boat trained a crew-served weapon on a Navy MH-60R Seahawk helicopter as a U.S. carrier strike group transited the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, two defense officials confirmed to USNI News.
During a routine daylight transit of the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group through the...
A test-fire of new ground-to-ground medium long-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 was successfully carried out on Sunday by scientists and technicians in the field of rocket research, who are bravely advancing toward a new goal to be proud of in the world, true to the far-sighted idea of Kim...
Michael Cutler | CAPS
CIA Director Brennan warns that ISIS is likely to exploit refugee flows, smuggling routes and legitimate methods of travel to attack the West
On June 16, John Brennan, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, testified before a hearing conducted by the Senate Intelligence Committee on the various...
Russian troops participating in the Kavkaz-2016 exercise
Donald Thieme | USNI
Russia is simultaneously conducting operations along the eastern Ukraine border, participating in large bilateral naval exercises with China in the South China Sea and conducting large-scale amphibious exercises in the Black Sea around the Crimean peninsula. The Russian Navy has...
Sam LaGrone and Megan Eckstein | USNI
The Navy released a new fleet plan that calls for 355 ships, outlining a massive increase in the size of its high-end large surface combatant and attack submarine fleets but a modest increase in its planned amphibious ship fleet, according to a Dec....