Fiction Topic Week By Jeffrey B. Hunter Bells rang through the passageways and selected berthing spaces of the Navy’s newest, first-in-class destroyer, the USS JOHN POINDEXTER, as the smooth and melodic voice of one Seaman Halsey roused the morning watch from their beds with his traditional greeting. “Rise and shine, shipmates! It’s another fine Navy … Continue reading Emissions Control
How the Mad Foxes of Patrol Squadron FIVE are harnessing their most powerful resource – their people – in an effort to cut inefficiencies and improve productivity. By Kenneth Flannery with Jared Wilhelm The U.S. Military Academy’s Modern War Institute recently published a thorough primer by ML Cavanaugh on what it means to drive innovation … Continue reading Finding New Ways to Fight, Pt. 1
This commentary is based on Dr. Truver’s remarks at the Future Strategy Forum 2016, Undersea Warfare panel, hosted by the Center for Naval Analyses, 5-6 December 2016. By Scott C. Truver, Ph.D. Introduction Winston Churchill observed, “The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” Looking backward, it usually comes as … Continue reading Naval Mines and Mining: Innovating in the Face of Benign Neglect
The following is an entry for the CIMSEC & Atlantic Council Fiction Contest on Autonomy and Future War. Winners will be announced 7 November. By Mark Jacobsen They were pushing the blackened wreckage of an F-35 over the edge of the carrier deck as the MCV-22 approached to land. The crew had given David … Continue reading Fitness Function
