USNI Join-up in Newport

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Postcards for Website Naval Station Newport Aerial

In Newport on Thursday, 12 Dec 2013?  Have questions or concerns about what direction the Naval Institute is headed?  Or perhaps some ideas to share…maybe you’d like to meet an author and get that article or book idea that’s been rattling around in the brainpan for a few out into the open?  Or perhaps issues of national and naval strategy are tugging at your synapses.

Mayhaps all the above — if so, head over to the USNI Happy Hour kicking off at 1700:

The Malt
150 Broadway
Newport, RI

LCDR B.J. Armstrong, author of 21st Century Mahan and 2013 Navy League Literary Achievement award winner will be there to field questions and stir the waters…

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