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Russian commentators have charged that Hamilton’s Black Sea “raid” amounts to a military provocation against Russia.

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 Kalimera!  Let me start by saying what a great honor it is for me to welcome the U.S. Coast Guard Fast Response Cutters Robert Goldman and Charles Moulthrope to the port of Piraeus. These two cutters have just completed a historic transatlantic voyage that I think would have made the founder of the U.S. Coast Guard, Alexander Hamilton, very proud, as they proceeded en route to their new homeport in Bahrain where they will operate with the U.S. Navy’s 5 th Fleet. I w...

by Tyler Durden Wednesday, Apr 28, 2021 - 04:15 AM At a time of still heightened tensions following this months Russian military build-up near Ukraine and subsequent draw down last week, the Kremlin says it is tracking a US Coast Guard ships movements after it entered the Black Sea on Tuesday. The US Navys Sixth Fleet confirmed the entrance, saying "The Legend-class national security cutter USCGC Hamilton (WMSL 753) transited into the Black Sea in support of NATO Allies and partners." HAPPE...

USCGC Hamilton transits into Black Sea for NATO mission By (0) USCGC Hamilton transits the Mediterranean Sea before heading into the Black Sea Tuesday. Photo by Sydney Phoenix/U.S. Coast Guard April 27 (UPI) -- The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton transited into the Black Sea Tuesday in support of NATO Allies and partners, the Navy announced. The Legend-class national security cutter is the first Coast Guard cutter to visit the Black sea since 2008, according to a Navy press release. Adverti...

U.S. Coast Guard cutter participates in exercises with Italys coast guard, navy By (0) The U.S. Coast Guard cutter USCGC Hamilton, here in port at Naples, Italy, conducted weekend interoperability exercises with Italys Coast Guard and Navy. Photo courtesy of U.S. 6th Fleet  April 26 (UPI) -- The U.S. Coast Guard announced completion of search and rescue exercises with Italys Coast Guard in the Tyrrhenian Sea near Naples, Italy, on Monday. The interoperability exercises between the two NATO p...

Kennan’s Containment Strategy: A Consensus on What Not to Do American foreign policy elites have adopted a partial myth about containment in order to worship at the altar of grand strategy before declaring that such a sweeping approach is no longer possible. Both propositions are false and are driven partially by nostalgia. THE MOST famous modern instance of the United States consciously adopting a grand strategy was the concept of “containment” against the Soviet Union, devised by the di...

This Libyan MiG Shootdown by F-14s Was Both Heroic and Gooned Up Off the waist catapults, launches an F-14B Tomcat assigned to Fighter Squadron THREE TWO (VF-32), (Swordsmen,) during flight operations onboard USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), on Dec. 26, 2004. (Philip V. Morrill/U.S. Navy) 22 Apr 2021 We Are The Mighty | By Ward Carroll Back in the ’80s – before 9/11 when the U.S. military’s focus shifted completely to the...

USNI News Search for: Home » Budget Industry » New Navy Fleet Commanders in Pacific, Middle East Nominated; New Picks for N9, Inspector General New Navy Fleet Commanders in Pacific, Middle East Nominated; New Picks for N9, Inspector General April 15, 2021 3:04 PM The White House has put forward nominees to lead the Navy’s two fleets in the Pacific and the fleet in the Middle East, as well as the service’s chief requirements officer and inspector general, the Pentagon announced this week. ...

Destroyer USS Arleigh Burke joins 6th Fleet at Rota, Spain By (0) The guided missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke joined the U.S. Navy 6th Fleet at Rota, Spain, its new home port, on Sunday. Photo by MCS1 Eduardo Otero/U.S. Navy The USS Arleigh Burke arrives at its new home port of Rota, Spain, on Sunday as the U.S. Navys latest Forward Deployed Naval Forces-Europe destroyer. Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Eduardo Otero/U.S. Navy April 12 (UPI) -- The USS Arleigh Burke, the ...

The struggle for technology sovereignty in Europe Apr 05,2021 - Last updated at Apr 05,2021 AUCKLAND — Back when states regularly used armed forces to compel others into compliance or dependence, sovereignty was primarily a geographic and military concept. But the term has more recently taken on an added dimension. The COVID-19 pandemic, for example, revealed the West’s dependence on China for supplies of face masks and personal protective equipment. And former US President Donald Trump wea...