With everyone talking about them, what IS a naval corvette? Chuck Hill discusses what they are, why they are important, and where they might go.

The Navy recently released its long-awaited 30-year shipbuilding plan, which provided three alternatives for future fleet force structure. The first two alternatives assume “no real budget growth” and ...

Red Sea Topic Week By COL Jörg Stenzel, German Army, and CDR Michael Posey, U.S. Navy Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. –Carl von Clausewitz Almost Friendly Fire ...

Naval vessels of all types have grown over the past 50 years. Even relatively low-end warship classes, such as the littoral combat ship, possessed significant system complexity. The tilt towards ...

Currently, much of the attention given to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is focused on the land and air domains; but the Russian Federation Navy has also played a role in the Black Sea, where there has ...

2027 War Readiness Week By Henry Ziemer The United States’ foundations as a global great power rest in no small part on its status as a regional hegemon. No single country in the Western Hemisphere ...

By Keith “Powder” Patton, CDR, USN Calculating the power of a fleet is a daunting and imprecise task. In the Washington Naval Treaty, tonnage and gun caliber were used as metrics to set the ratio of ...

Strategic Sealift Topic Week By Major John Bowser, U.S. Army Introduction The DoD has shifted its focus away from fighting insurgents in the Middle East to prepare for large-scale combat operations.

On 19 July 2017, after a long transit through the Indian Ocean and around the European continent, a three-ship People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) task group entered the Baltic Sea to conduct ...

As a Christmas gift from our friends at Risk Intelligence, we’re sharing two free articles from the publication Strategic Insights by CIMSECians. This first (also available in Pdf form), by myself, ...

While much of the international attention on China’s naval buildup is focused on its rapidly modernizing surface fleet, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is also taking bold steps to field a ...

By Jimmy Drennan Introduction Some were surprised by the news that four U.S. soldiers were killed in an ambush in Niger and may have even wondered “why do we have troops in Africa?” Some also agree ...