Secretary of the Navy John Phelan reflects on 250 years of the Navy, what surprises him about his position and more on 'My ...

America deploys major naval assets against drug cartels while Navy secretary warns of China's growing fleet in new homeland defense operation launch.

The late 19th-century U.S. Navy officer, strategist and eventual president of the U.S. Naval War College, Alfred Mahan, would look upon the world today and feel vindicated. Back in 1890, Mahan ...

Speaking at the Pentagon on February 7, 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth invoked predecessor Donald Rumsfeld’s 2001 speech declaring war on bureaucracy and “shifting resources from the tail to ...

The White House should appoint some senior overseer, probably housed within the National Security Council, with the authority to manage all U.S. government endeavors relating to maritime strategy. “I ...

The Navy is studying options for supplying its four public shipyards with electricity and potable water in the event of a power grid or utility outage that could last up to two weeks. The Naval ...

In 2005, as a journalist based in Shanghai, I wrote a story about a decrepit Ukrainian aircraft carrier acquired by China and renamed the Liaoning with plans to retrofit it for its navy. In a plot out ...

Downtown Norfolk should be considered for the future home of the Navy Museum, Norfolk Historical Society board member Michael ...

A Dying Navy? Russia’s Navy has been severely weakened since the invasion of Ukraine, with Kyiv’s forces damaging or destroying half of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, including key warships. Putin Can’t ...