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The Sicilian Expedition: Lessons from an Ancient Disaster

By Austin McLaughlin The world’s preeminent naval power launched a vast armada west to secure distant allies from a threatening...

Defending Global Order Against China’s Maritime Insurgency – Part 2

By Dan White and Hunter Stires Dan White: China’s behavior in the South China Sea, along with efforts to highlight...

Hedge with Non-Kinetic Defense

By Connor Keating In April 2025, Admiral Samuel Paparo delivered his annual posture statement to the House Armed Services Committee,...

Asymmetry Rising: How Autonomous Systems Enforce Sea Denial

By Rudraksh Pathak Naval warfare is approaching a point where the traditional capital ship is no longer an unambiguous asset...

Russia’s Irregular Maritime Statecraft in the Baltic Sea

By Joe Durigan and Craig Whiteside Since 2022, Russia has sharply increased its employment of illegal/coercive/aggressive/deceptive (ICAD) maritime tactics in...

Passenger Arrested on Celebrity Eclipse After Exposing Himself to Teens in Cruise Ship Sauna

It happened again. For the third time in the last two years, an adult passenger exposed himself to teenagers in...

Defending Global Order Against China’s Maritime Insurgency – Part 1

By Dan White and Hunter Stires The international order has come under immense strain in recent years. Major wars have...

The Unwitting Fleet

By Eva Prokofiev Thousands of commercial and private vessels transit the world’s oceans daily, broadcasting positional data, transmitting communications through...

Why America Needs a Four-Ocean Navy

By Derek S. Reveron Rethinking America’s Strategic Map When Americans think about how the United States engages the world, we...

OPERATION HIGHMAST: UK EASTERN DEPLOYMENT FOR A “TWO-CARRIER NAVY”

By David Scott Operation Highmast, running from April to November 2025, took a UK Carrier Strike Group (CSG), led by...

Driving Toward Distributed Maritime Operations: Getting the Navy Out of Its VLS Hole

By Peter Kouretsos The Department of War is addressing its critical shortfall in precision munitions, but it also needs more...

Turkey’s Air-to-Air Drone Test and the Logic of Middle-Power Alliance Stress

by Lawrence J Kaiser In late 2025, Turkey conducted a successful test of an air-to-air missile launched from an unmanned...

Norovirus Outbreak Sickens At Least 153 People on Star Princess

On March 12 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that 104 passengers and 49 crew members are...

Sailor’s First – Aligning the Leadership Continuum

By CAPT Paul W. Nickell, USN, MA, MBA The Sailor is the Navy. No Navy is better than its Sailors....

The United States Can’t Deter China Without Allied Shipyards

By Patrick M. Cronin and David Glick Introduction Industrial endurance and allied integration are indispensable to making deterrence-by-denial against China...

Mass Drones to Save Missiles: A High–Low Mix for the Pacific

By Connor Keating  The future of conflict in the Western Pacific will hinge on sustaining firepower over vast distances with...

Can an Interagency Task Force Work in the Arctic?

By Jeffrey Kucik and Veronica De Allende An increasingly accessible Arctic raises questions about U.S. responsibilities in the region. There...

Enduring the Storm: Reflections on the U.S. Navy’s “Fat Leonard” Scandal

By Rear Admiral Bruce Loveless, U.S. Navy (Ret.) Heavy Seas Heavy seas do calm with time. Yet long after headlines...

Useful Lemons

By Jason Flores Rutledge Introduction The People’s Republic of China (PRC) represents a strong threat to the United States due...

The Billionaire Who Built a Cruise Empire — and Bankrolled Jeffrey Epstein

For a decade, Leon Black quietly built one of the largest cruise lines in the world. As CEO of Apollo...