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IT was  their “baptism by fire,” wrote American historian Alfred McCoy, as he narrated how the  graduates of…

The Bataan death march was an horrific event that killed 20,000 prisoners, after the fall of the Philippines in 1942.

The Navy needs to build collaborating, autonomous formations of unmanned vehicles as a hedge strategy.

Deploying a naval force to Asia to signal commitment to defend Taiwan against China is fatal to the more important effort of preparing for the defense.

Let’s dust off those old archives.

Command of the sea is taken for granted. This is a grave miscalculation.

Decades of ambiguity did not eliminate risk of catastrophic kinetic action in the Indo-Pacific. Deterrence in a commitment to repulse aggression has to be communicated with explicit precision. TOKYO: Having served as a thematic staff member and consultant/advisor in several multilateral agencies, it has always been intriguing that professional diplomats appear to take macabre pleasure […]

In the two decades before the United States entered World War II, the military developed war plans for all sorts of potential conflicts, identified by colors, as in War Plan Purple for Russia, Gold for France, Red for Britain, White for another US civi

Times have changed but maybe tactics dont have to.  Heres What You Need to Remember: Now, likely U.S. political and strategic aims raise a troublesome prospect: that the U.S. Pacific Fleet may not enjoy the luxury of what Miller terms a “cautionary” advance across the Pacific. Reconquering the Philippines or Guam could wait; today the United States may have to win quickly or not at all. Everyone says it: Newport, as in where the U.S. Naval War College is located and where yours truly work...

USS Houston (CL 81), in a hard turn with her underside exposed, felt the torpedo explosion across the ship. Commander William Behrens recalled “that all propulsive power and steering control was immediately lost. The ship took a list to starboard of 16 degrees. All main electrical power was immediately lost.” The tactical situation was still perilous, and with Houston “rolling sluggishly in the trough of the sea… her main deck [dipping] under at frequent intervals,” Behrens ordered ...