17+ hour, 11+ min ago   (733+ words) There is a very direct and profound leadership lesson taught at the United States Naval Academy: bad news does not get better with age. Critical information must be passed on early and accurately. No one should be the last person…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (806+ words) The distinction between peace and war has gradually blurred. States can be attacked without a single shot being fired: through cyber sabotage, disinformation, economic coercion, manipulation of energy dependencies, data control, and interference in democratic processes. Conflict is no longer…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (618+ words) Japan’s Mogami-class frigate represents one of the more significant experiments in contemporary naval warfare: a major surface combatant conceived from the outset as a mothership for autonomous maritime systems. Rather than treating unmanned vehicles as bolt-on curiosities, the Mogami embeds…...

2+ week, 16+ hour ago   (670+ words) The MV-75 Cheyenne is not an incremental replacement for legacy helicopters. It is a strategic instrument designed to fundamentally close this gap. By merging rotorcraft agility with the speed and range of a fixed-wing platform, the Cheyenne can transform the High…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (607+ words) The post-Cold War order is over. Not weakened, not under stress, not in need of reform. Over. None of this is simply cheap hardware, either. It depends on an ISR Commons, a shared architecture blending commercial constellations like ICEYE’s synthetic…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (522+ words) This is not a coincidence of timing. It is what happens when a chokepoint war finally arrives after decades of being treated as a scenario rather than a possibility. The Strait of Hormuz has been the subject of naval planning…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (461+ words) The CH-53K King Stallion is a substantially better enabler of long-range raid operations than its predecessor, the CH-53E Super Stallion. That claim is not a marketing assertion or a program office talking point. What follows is a systematic examination of…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (382+ words) A Platform-Agnostic Officer in a Platform-Centric Navy The MISR WTI’s founding problem was conceptual before it was bureaucratic. Naval Aviation’s training architecture organizes itself around platforms — Top Gun for fighters, the helicopter weapons schools, the various community-specific tracks that feed…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (697+ words) The strategic competition between the United States and China is often framed as a race to build the most powerful artificial intelligence model. But developments in recent weeks point to something more complex, and arguably more consequential. The real contest…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (378+ words) Russia’s hybrid campaign in Moldova has operated across several interconnected domains, reflecting a playbook that Moscow has refined over decades across the post-Soviet space. Despite the persistence and multi-dimensional character of Russia’s hybrid campaign, it has not achieved its intended…...