Proceedings Digital Edition
Book Reviews
The Valley’s Edge: A Year with the Pashtuns in the Heartland of the Taliban
Daniel R. Green. Dulles, VA: Potomac Books,...
CEO Notes
With the introduction and wide acceptance of e-Reader platforms, your Naval Institute team is particularly focused on the astonishing pace of...
Nobody Asked Me, But. . . - Let’s Game the Arctic
It is time for the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard to host an Arctic forum and games at the U.S. Naval War College (NWC) involving all the Arctic...
Tribute - In Memoriam: Admiral James D. Watkins, 1927–2012
Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal and Chief of Naval Operations Ernest King barely spoke to one another in the latter part of World War II....
Professional Notes
Choosing Sailors with the “Right Stuff”
By Commander James H. Ware, U.S. Navy
The U.S. Navy has for...
Time to Fly Right
The Navy needs to develop crew criteria for small- and medium-size unmanned aerial systems, and it may not be making full...
Combat Fleets
Huntington Ingalls Industries launched the U.S. Navy’s first America-class amphibious assault ship, at Pascagoula, Mississippi, in...
Lest We Forget - “What Were Their Names?”
Chief Petty Officer William Bergstresser was standing watch on Halloween night in the engine room of his ship, an old four-stack Clemson-...
Birth of the Littoral Combat Ship
In a series of 1990s simulations, the LCS concept was born; the Strait of Hormuz was the hypothetical scenario, and ‘...
Naval Institute Foundation - Welcoming the Next Generation
One of the Naval Institute’s top priorities is to engage young naval personnel and help them advance as the next generation of naval...
Trends in Hybrid and Irregular Warfare
Savvy adversaries are more capable than ever of using high-tech gadgets and social media against the United States....
Advisors Afloat
The POLAD program is advancing interagency cooperation between State and Defense—but is it ready for a carrier strike...
Oceans - Seasick: Our Acidic Ocean
Carbon dioxide . . . it’s what makes our soft drinks zesty and champagne . . . well, champagne. It is also a major greenhouse gas. Absorbed...
World Naval Developments - Chinese Tomahawks?
In late July it was reported that canisters like those of the DH-10 land-attack cruise missile (a Tomahawk-type weapon) were on board a Chinese...
From Our Archive
‘A baited cat may grow as fierce as a lion.’
Samuel Palmer (1805–1880)
Grumman Aircraft Engineering...