By SYDNEY J. FREEDBERG JR.on October 19, 2015 at 1:23 PM WASHINGTON: The high-cost, high-controversy centerpieces for the future Navy fleet — theFord-class aircraft carrier and the F-35C fighter — … More »
U.S. navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan arrives at the U.S. Navy’s Yokosuka base in Yokosuka, near Tokyo Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) By JACQUELINE KLIMAS Naval … More »
Even though smaller carriers would be less expensive, the decline in capability would be significant. Timothy A. Walton Eric Heginbotham and his colleagues at RAND should be commended for their … More »
That’s why the United States needs to act now. BY JAMES STAVRIDIS The Great Wall, as President Richard Nixon so elegantly said on his first trip to Beijing in 1972, … More »
VLADIMIR PUTIN’S BRAZEN MOVES IN SYRIA AND UKRAINE RAISE NEW QUESTIONS ABOUT AMERICA’S CONTINGENCY PLANS Russia has big ambitions, growing capabilities By Andrew Tilghman and Oriana Pawlyk, Staff writers Early on … More »
By Christian Davenport Thousands of people view the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford as it is christened at Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia on November 9, 2013. (Joe Fudge/Newport … More »
By George Will The Washington Post THE NAVY’S operations, on which the sun never sets, are the nation’s nerve endings, connecting it with the turbulent world. Although the next president … More »
Dave Majumdar China may have started construction on its second aircraft carrier according to new satellite imagery. The images—which were obtained by the British defense trade journal IHS Jane’s from … More »