Amphibious Command Reform. In an April 24, 2026 directive, Chief of Naval Operations Daryl Caudle ordered that, beginning in ...

However, Western navies have yet to fully grasp that within these loosely integrated sensor-to-shooter networks, land-based ...

Coming on the heels of a new National Security Strategy (NSS) issued in December 2025 and a National Defense Strategy (NDS) ...

The Commission cannot responsibly recommend a force structure until it answers a question that Congress, the administration, ...

Conventional financial warfare operates on declared assets: accounts frozen by executive order, correspondent banking access removed, entities delisted. The target knows what has been frozen. The ...

Written by Wilder Alejandro Sanchez, The Southern Tide addresses maritime security issues throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. It discusses the challenges regional navies face including limited ...

Recent conflicts in the Middle East highlight how maritime kill chains from ashore impose risk on global shipping. However, Western navies have yet to fully grasp that within these loosely integrated ...

June 2024 marks the 90 th year since commissioning the Ranger (CV-4), the first purpose-designed and built U.S. aircraft carrier. The Ranger stood on the legacies of several ships, most notably the ...

Industrial endurance and allied integration are indispensable to making deterrence-by-denial against China credible under the 2026 National Defense Strategy. The Trump administration’s Maritime Action ...

Over the past five years, numerous articles have called for increased U.S. defense resources focused on the Arctic. This is a strategic mistake, a distraction. This article will outline the reasons ...

The Department of War is addressing its critical shortfall in precision munitions, but it also needs more platforms capable of using them. This is especially true for the U.S. Navy. As the number of ...