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A Thoroughly Efficient Navy for the 21st Century, Pt. 2
By David Tier America has grown weary of the post-9/11 wars. Long, drawn-out conflicts have worn down American resolve and left many defense officials nostalgic for “the good-old days” when a...
‘A Fiscal Pearl Harbor’
This piece was originally published by the US Naval Institute. It is republished here with permission. Read it in its original form here. By Eric J. Labs The Navy released its latest 30-year ship...
Missing an Opportunity for Innovation: A Conceptual Critique of Distributed Lethality
100 years ago today, in bunkers and boardrooms across Europe, the military and political leaders of a Europe that was being drowned in its own blood were attempting to solve the stagnant enigma o...
Coast Guard Budget Battles Revisited
Post by Chuck Hill Why does the Coast Guard seem to be losing the budget battle within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)? While funding for the Department has grown, the Coast Guard budge...
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Raid Breaker: Robert Work’s Soft Kill on Hard Costs
Winston Churchill noted that, “it is better to jaw-jaw than to war-war” – so too once the war-war has started, “it is better to buzz-buzz, then to bang-bang.” U.S. Deputy Secretary of ...
LCS Versus the Danish Strawman
Many critics have assailed the Littoral Combatant Ship (LCS) program for its high cost in comparison with foreign, supposedly better armed and equipped equivalents. The Danish Iver Huitfeldt and ...
TLAMs and ISIS: Insane and Cynical Ways to Blow Things Up
Several days ago (Tuesday September 23), I drove to work listening to the report of the United States’ government’s latest military adventure in the area of the Levant at the confluence of no...
Increasing Lethality in Anti-Surface Warfare (ASuW)
Minor (and Less Minor) Course Corrections Change in the force structure of any military service is a reality we should all expect and in fact insist upon; one may only hope the factors that drive...
Troubles Of Our Own: Why 2014 Is Not Like 1914 (But Is Scary Anyway)
It has become fashionable, on the eve of the centennial of the outbreak of World War One, to ask, or worry about, whether it could all happen again. This vague sense of anxiety – this sense of ...
Tomahawks No More? Not So Fast
Editor’s Note: To allay some confusion, this article is about the end of the Tomahawk program, not the elimination of existing stocks. Tomahawks are on the chopping block. The most recent De...
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Sea Control 13: The Queen’s Shilling
Matt and Chris wax on about the new budget deal and military benefits before finally discussing the incident between the Chinese and American navies, the Pacific balance, robotics, and books for ...
Sea Control 8: Sacred Cows and Amphibians
CDR Salamander joins Matt and Grant for a podcast on writing as a member of the military, anonymity, and some sacred cows military planners hold dear: benefits, high-end systems, equal budgeting,...
Budget Spin for Dummies
Not that we’re calling you a dummy… In his talk at the U.S. Naval Warfare Development Command last Friday, CDR Bryan McGrath (ret.) made some important assertions about the affordability o...
Sequestration: America’s Great Harbor
For the Athenians, the Great Harbor of Syracuse was anything but. A monument to the Athenian tactic of bottle-necking of the “world’s” most powerful navy, the battle at the Great Harbor s...
Pentagon Announces Sequestration Scenario for Navy
International Maritime Satire Week Warning: The following is a piece of fiction intended to elicit insight through the use of satire and written by those who do not make a living being funny – ...
SECNAV Scrambles to Find Chit for 2 Trillion Dollars
International Maritime Satire Week Warning: The following is a piece of fiction intended to elicit insight through the use of satire and written by those who do not make a living being funny – ...
Kickstarting the Next Navy
The week started out with a good article at MIT on direct civilian involvement in last year’s Libyan conflict (hat tip – YN2(SW) H. Lucien Gauthier III, nearly as much a mouthful as my own na...