John Grady | USNI News
While Russian submarine activity in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas and the North Atlantic are at their highest levels since the end of the Cold War, its navy has only started to be resourced and its undersea fleet, while “a pocket of competence,” remains small.
This...
Sam LaGrone | USNI
A historically small fleet and a relentless operational tempo are proving the Navy is too small to meet more than its bare minimum requirement around the world, Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Bill Moran told a Senate panel on Wednesday.
“We know we’re too small for...
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...
A map of China’s shifting definition of the so-called Nine-Dash Line. US State Dept. Image
John Grady | USNI
A British geographer and journalist described China’s claims to large swaths of seas and land formations off its coast are based on 20th-century events — from the Boxer Rebellion to the defeat...
Megan Eckstein | USNI
USNI News polled its writers, naval analysts and service members on what they consider the most important military and maritime stories in 2016.
With the Navy releasing a “Design for Maintaining Maritime Superiority” and the Marines releasing a Marine Corps Operational Concept in 2016 that both call for...
Megan Eckstein | USNI
HAMPTON, VA. – Lessons learned on the Littoral Combat Ship’s modularity and the Zumwalt-class destroyer’s power management will help guide discussions on a future family of surface combatants, the commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command said Tuesday.
Adm. Phil Davidson said discussions about the future surface combatant are...
ACHIEVING U.S. SECURITY THROUGH LEADERSHIP & LIBERTY
June 9, 2016
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This document lays out the key themes and specific policy actions that should guide U.S. foreign policy and national security going forward.
House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan...
A Marine with Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, assists his squad by providing reconnaissance with an “Instant Eye” unmanned aerial system at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., Aug. 5, 2016. US Marine Corps photo.
Megan Eckstein | USNI
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Marine Corps must...