Navy Crew MIA From Vietnam War is Identified

Received in the mail the other day: IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 1253-07 October 26, 2007 ——————————————————————————– Navy Crew MIA From Vietnam War is Identified The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of five U.S. servicemen, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been accounted-for and will be returned to…

The New Maritime Strategy: Responses to Today’s (Oct 24) Reactions

SJS Readers, Good morning, and sorry I didn’t post last night—I let my personal life get in the way of this new-found hobby. (ed. Careful – it does have a certain addictive nature about it.  – SJS)  It will probably happen again.  The last few days have been very interesting and educational. I’m beginning to…

The New Maritime Strategy: SECNAV’s Speech

SECNAV introduced the new MS before the International Seapower Symposium at Newport last week – and the speech is well worth reviewing if you haven’t heard or seen it yet (available here or with highlights here).   It is revealing in both the expected expository points re. the new MS as well as emphasis he placed in…

The New Maritime Strategy: Responses to Today’s Reactions (23 Oct)

SJS Readers, Another great day on the Maritime Strategy front, including a great back and forth via email with one of the guys I respect most in this town who has some serious problems with the strategy, and some work putting together a series of briefings for flags to take on the road. I continue…

The New Maritime Strategy: Responses to Today’s Reactions

            Good evening, SJS readers.  I’ve spent a good bit of the day scouring the internet for reaction to the Maritime Strategy, and I thought I’d take some time to give some thoughts on issues raised on this blog and others.  Climate change.  There has been some positive reaction to our discussion of climate change,…

The New Maritime Strategy: Precedence of Strategic Concept and Resource Allocation

Quite a bit of back-and-forth over the new MS and lack of discussion over force structure/resource allocation.  Not the first time this has been confronted though and the following paragraph, drawn from a 1954 article in Proceedings by Samuel P. Huntington may be particularly germane to the current discussion: "A second element of a military…