How We Lost The Seas July 15, 2013
What will happen should American sea power wane and China replace the U.S. as the guarantor of maritime security? By Gary Roughead Mayday. By Seth Cropsey, Overlook, 336 pp., $29.95 … More
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The Future Has Arrived July 12, 2013
(NORFOLK VIRGINIAN-PILOT 12 JUL 13) … Ray Mabus Recent debate over the combat effectiveness and cost of the U.S. Navy’s carrier force has focused on the perceived vulnerability of our … More
Drone Lands Itself At Sea, New Era In Warfare July 11, 2013
(BLOOMBERG 10 JUL 13) … Tobin Harshaw It’s not going to overshadow Chuck Yeager or the Wright Brothers, but when a drone aircraft’s tailhook snatched a wire stretched across the … More
USN, Industry Seek New Concepts For 6th-Generation Fighter July 11, 2013
(DEFENSE NEWS 10 JUL 13) … Christopher P. Cavas WASHINGTON – The makeup of the US Navy’s carrier air wings will start to shift in a few years as the … More
ZERO-TOLERANCE POLICIES LEAD TO A RISK-AVERSE NAVY THAT WE CAN ILL AFFORD July 11, 2013
By: JOHN LEHMAN SPECIAL TO THE U-T 12:01 a.m.July 7, 2013 Updated 10:11 p.m.July 5, 2013 John Lehman was secretary of the Navy under President Ronald Reagan, and a member … More
Beyond F-35: Rep. Forbes & Adm. Greenert on Cyber, Drones & Carriers July 9, 2013
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 29, 2013 at 3:30 PM WASHINGTON: What homemade roadside bombs could do to Army and Marine ground vehicles was the ugly surprise of … More
Sailing Through Familiar Waters July 9, 2013
(NORFOLK VIRGINIAN-PILOT 07 JUL 13) … Editorials In the irony department, this one’s a gusher. In February, a who’s who of local and state politicians – Virginia Beach Mayor Will … More
Land Warriors July 9, 2013
The United States has increasingly preferred to base its combat aircraft in the Middle East on aircraft carriers in and near the Persian Gulf. But now it should change course, … More