On September 13th, 2025, a Chinese Coast Guard (CCG) vessel entered the restricted waters around the Republic of China’s (ROC) Dongsha Atoll, also known as the Pratas Island, located approximately 400 ...
Principal Warfare Officers attended a special two-week course there. In my post-Navy career, I have had extensive interaction ...
“Despite the remarkable developments in military technology, despite the weapons and machines which have vastly expanded our ...
SWO specialization was a good idea for the last generation of officers, but time is now too short. Implementing it in 2026, ...
The time was a century ago for the SWO officer corps to accept that the future had arrived, and it is past high time for them ...
“ The time was a century ago for the SWO officer corps to accept that the future had arrived, and it is past high time for them to do so now. The U.S. Navy surface warfare community must adapt ...
Rust and paint have taken precedence over combat readiness at exactly the moment when our time could not be more valuable. Preservation in and of itself is not a bad thing and it certainly has a place ...
With the return of great power competition and the prospects for a highly-contested maritime space in the Euro-Atlantic area, NATO will be called to play a more active role at sea to preserve ...
“You go to war with the Army you have, not the army you want.” – U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, December 2004 Much like Secretary Rumsfeld’s comments on fighting with the army you have, a ...
The old adage “a picture is worth a thousand words” is imprecise. More accurately, a picture is similar to an inkblot in a Rorschach test in which viewers interpret each image differently. So it is ...
Ten years ago, the Chinese Communist Party, under the leadership of Xi Jinping, introduced two major policy initiatives: Made in China 2025 and military-civil fusion. Each represents an upgrade of ...