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Start Building Small Warships

Notes to the New CNO Series By Shelley Gallup and Ben DiDonato In past wars, small and well-armed ships have...

Norovirus Outbreak Sickens at Least 98 on Royal Caribbean’s Serenade of the Seas

Ninety-eight people have fallen ill with norovirus aboard Royal Caribbean’s Serenade of the Seas, according to a CDC report on...

The Indian Ocean: An Opportunity to Strengthen Alliances and Deter China

Notes to the New CNO Series By Captain Renato Scarfi, (Italian Navy, Ret.) and Captain Gian Carlo Poddighe (Italian Navy,...

To Win the Fight, We Must First Win the Mind: Create NDP-1.1 Naval Warfighting

Notes to the New CNO Series By Paul Nickell The new CNO’s vision to place the Sailor at the center...

Expand the Navy’s Over-the Horizon Targeting Solutions

Notes to the New CNO Series By Richard Mosier Since the fielding of the Harpoon missile in the 1970s and...

“Rogue Wave” Rocks Vision of the Seas

A proverbial “rogue wave” struck the Vision of the Seas cruise ship a week ago, on September 20th 2025, as...

Anchor Acquisition and Force Development on Targeting China’s C4ISR

Notes to the New CNO Series By Nicholas Weising Admiral Daryl Caudle’s tenure as CNO began on August 25th, 2025,...

A Navy for War in the Age of Intelligent Missiles

Notes to the New CNO Series By Craig Koerner The U.S. model of delivering firepower continues to predominantly take the...

The Submarine Force Needs More Flexible Training Tools

Notes to the New CNO Series By Andrew Pfau and Bridger Smith Shore-based team trainers – attack centers – are...

Revisiting A Modest Proposal for Improving Shipyard Production and Repair Capacity

Notes to the New CNO Series By Ryan Walker It came as a great surprise to me that, despite disliking...

Royal Caribbean Leads U.S. DOT Cruise Crime Report for Second Quarter of 2025

Royal Caribbean topped all cruise lines in crime during the second quarter of 2025, per the most recent crime report...

Fix the Navy’s Flawed System of Warfighting Development

Notes to the New CNO Series By Dmitry Filipoff “After their examination, the recruits should then receive the military mark,...

What Unifies the Foundry, Fleet, and Fighting Triad? Warfighting Focus

Notes to the New CNO Series By CDR Paul Viscovich, USN (Ret.) Which part of a spear makes it lethal?...

Just When You Thought It was Safe to Get Back in a Cruise Ship Water Slide!

Last week, a cruise passenger on a Norwegian Cruise Line ship (some sources identify as the Norwegian Bliss) faced the...

We are at Risk of Forgetting the Lessons of the 2017 Collisions

Notes to the New CNO Series By John Cordle A common saying in safety organizations is to consider the “half-life...

Train to Win Below the Threshold of War

Notes to the New CNO Series By Vince Vanterpool In support of developing a new Navy Deterrence Concept, the U.S....

Sink the Kill Chain: A Navy Space Guide to Protecting Ships and Sailors

Notes to the New CNO Series By Alan Brechbill Admiral Caudle’s first message to the fleet outlined three priorities: the...

Accelerate Human-Machine Teaming in the Maritime Operations Center

Notes to the New CNO Series By Michael Posey To maintain maritime superiority in this era of trans-regional, multi-domain warfare,...

Change the Navy’s Narrative: The Future Fight and the Hybrid Fleet

Notes to the New CNO Series By Peter Dombrowski With Admiral Caudle assuming the post of Chief of Naval Operations,...

Carnival Passenger Arrested in Miami for Possession and Transportation of Child Pornography

A Carnival Cruise Line passenger from Kingsport, Tennessee was arrested in Miami, Florida after federal authorities found child pornography on...