Dead reckoning
The U.S. Navy’s new maritime strategy sets forth a vision of the role of naval forces in defending and protecting U.S. national interests against new threats.
Singular vision
Winning the battle of ideas against terrorist groups such as al-Qaida is necessary to preserve and pro¬mote the interests of the U.S. at home and abroad. To win, theater combatant...
By Cmdr John M. Myers
Reshaping the Pentagon
In this two-part call for a radically new approach to the U.S. national security system, Frank Hoffman makes the case that it’s not dollars the Pentagon lacks; it’s...
Strategic security spending
In a speech at Kansas State University in November, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates noted that, “Four times in the last century the United States has come to the end of a war,...
By Frank Hoffman
Request for proposals
A new congressional committee is welcoming ideas for restructuring the agencies that are in charge of our national security. The Panel on Roles and Missions is a bipartisan group of seven...
By U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper
Flashpoint: The cyber challenge
It is no secret that modern warfare is increasingly dependent on advanced computers — and no country’s armed forces are more reliant on the digital age for information...
By Peter Brookes
Back to basics
Retired Maj. Gen. Robert Scales has written an excellent analysis of the issues in “Infantry and national priorities” [December]. But he may have missed certain aspects of two...
A question of tolerance
Had I not seen the title of Barry Fagin and Lt. Col. James Parco’s “A question of faith” [January], I would have gone through the first two pages wondering what their point...
In this issue
Cmdr. Jerry Hendrix, commanding officer of a Navy Tactical Air Control Squadron and 2007 recipient of the Navy League’s Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for literary achievement; Karl...
Undersea warfare: The hidden threat
Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011, passed without incident. New Yorkers breathed a sigh of relief, as did most Americans who were glad there were no terrorist attacks since that fateful day 10 years...
By Karl M. Hasslinger
The big gamble
Like no other military service in history, the Navy is betting a very large — and expensive — chunk of its future fleet on untested technologies and practices. Large destroyers...
BY CHRISTOPHER P. CAVAS
Taking risks
Accept no unnecessary risk.” — Navy Operational Risk Management
By Capt. William K. Lescher
