COMNAVSURFOR -Vision for the 2026 Surface Fleet

COMNAVSURFOR – “Vision for the 2026 Surface Fleet” Interesting read & released coincident with the Surface navy Association’s annual meeting. I especially note with interest the emphasis on offensive lethality – to wit: the Surface Force must greatly improve it’s offensive lethality. All well and good and the nod to training is important. BUT: –…

In The Mail Today: “The Admirals” by Walter R. Borneman
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In The Mail Today: “The Admirals” by Walter R. Borneman

So – just as I was making a serious dent in the pile of shame, in the mail today comes an advance copy of “The Admirals” courtesy the publisher, Little Brown, scheduled for release next month.  The noted author Walter R. Borneman (Polk, 1812, and The French and Indian War among several) takes on the…

The Ties That Bind

It has been said that in a world intricately and inexorably connected, individually, we seem to draw apart from one another.   That those connections we have are tenuous, virtual and of little lasting substance or effect.   Like spiderwebs on the wind, we connect and (temporarily) bond with whatever object we come in contact…

Happy 236th Shipmates!

From CNO:   On 13 October, the Navy celebrates 236 years of enduring traditions and missions that have preserved freedom of the seas and the American way of life. As we celebrate this birthday, we can reflect on more than two centuries of warfighting excellence while serving as a global force for good. The mettle…

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USNI: A Change In Mission Statement?

The Board of Directors at the US Naval Institue (of which, full disclosure, I am a Life member) has evidently determined that the “mission statement” that has served the organization for 138 years is in need of an overhaul. Norman Polmar disagrees: I am writing to you–fellow members of the U.S. Naval Institute–to urge that…

Project CADILLAC: The Beginning of AEW in the US Navy (Part III)
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Project CADILLAC: The Beginning of AEW in the US Navy (Part III)

1050L 24 Oct 1944. USS St. Lo (CVE-63) is under heavy air attack. After successfully fending off the superior surface force of VADM Takeo Kurita’s Center Force, “Taffy 3” is now defending against a surprise air attack that has lasted some 40 minutes already. One of the features of this attack is the use of…

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United States Navy: Happy 235th Birthday

13 October 1775: Continental Congress “Resolved, That a swift sailing vessel, to carry ten carriage guns, and a proportionable number of swivels, with eighty men, be fitted, with all possible despatch, for a cruise of three months, and that the commander be instructed to cruize eastward, for intercepting such transports as may be laden with…