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May 10, 2025
One hopes that Russian and Chinese capability and malevolence have landed a hard enough knock to induce Congress and the White House to persevere with a naval renaissance.
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Apr 16, 2025
Stakeholders in the maritime enterprise must think in grand Mahanian terms about rejuvenating U.S. sea power. Trump’s new executive order charts a path forward—but...
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Apr 11, 2025
The U.S. Navy can learn much from the Russo-Japanese War—and from dueling interpretations of that conflict by naval theorists Alfred Thayer Mahan and Julian S. Corbett.
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Mar 25, 2025
Control represents the prime goal of military strategy, and air bombardment—no matter how relentless—cannot replace the power of boots on the ground.
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Mar 15, 2025
A measured, relentless advance applies political pressure. The more destruction looms, the more intense the pressure.
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Mar 4, 2025
What lawmakers are contemplating is a letter of marque that bestows the authority to execute an open-ended maritime campaign under supervision from Washington.
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Mar 3, 2025
Mounting a standing presence in America’s backyard could pay handsome returns on a modest Chinese investment.
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Feb 6, 2025
The Chinese Communist Party and the People’s Liberation Army are unquestionably guilty of self-defeating behavior. But American military planners should not push their positive...
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Feb 3, 2025
The White House should appoint some senior overseer, probably housed within the National Security Council, with the authority to manage all U.S. government endeavors relating to...
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Jan 21, 2025
The nature of the current strategic competition suggests that Trump will need to craft a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine radically different from Theodore Roosevelt’s. It will...
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Jan 9, 2025
The year 2027 is just a year. We should remain watchful as it approaches, lest the prophets of automatic warfare prove correct, but we should neither relax our guard in the meantime...
Mar 25, 2025Control represents the prime goal of military strategy, and air bombardment—no matter how relentless—cannot replace the power of boots on the ground. 