Although Stockdale is now upheld within the U.S. military as a prototypical model of moral leadership, the real story is more ...

With everyone talking about them, what IS a naval corvette? Chuck Hill discusses what they are, why they are important, and where they might go.

Tensions could be high in East Asia when a civil aircraft flying in international airspace over the East China Sea (ECS) finds itself intercepted by military fighter aircraft. These aircraft are part ...

Tanmen Militia’s Leading Role in the 2014 Haiyang Shiyou (HYSY)-981 Oil Rig Standoff, Spratly Features Construction, and Beyond Tanmen maritime militia report for duty in uniform, likely a training ...

2027 War Readiness Week By Henry Ziemer The United States’ foundations as a global great power rest in no small part on its status as a regional hegemon. No single country in the Western Hemisphere ...

The Navy recently released its long-awaited 30-year shipbuilding plan, which provided three alternatives for future fleet force structure. The first two alternatives assume “no real budget growth” and ...

This is the second part of our conversation series with General Anthony Zinni, USMC (ret.) on leadership, strategy, learning, and the art and science of warfighting. Read Part One here. In this ...

By Keith “Powder” Patton, CDR, USN Calculating the power of a fleet is a daunting and imprecise task. In the Washington Naval Treaty, tonnage and gun caliber were used as metrics to set the ratio of ...

June 2024 marks the 90 th year since commissioning the Ranger (CV-4), the first purpose-designed and built U.S. aircraft carrier. The Ranger stood on the legacies of several ships, most notably the ...

The following originally appeared in the summer 1985 edition of the Naval War College Review and is republished with permission. Read it in its original form here. By Floyd D. Kennedy Jr “Air Defense ...

In 2016, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called the Black Sea a “Russian Lake” and encouraged NATO to do more to counter Russia’s efforts to exert control over it. 1 Never was that control ...