Chris Denzel is an intelligence officer and operational planner. He is currently serving as the J-52 Posture Plans Officer, U.S. Forces Japan. He previously served as the G-5 bilateral U.S.-Japan ...

Jonathan Selling is Executive Producer and Co-Host of the Sea Control podcast. Contact the podcast team at [email protected].

The United States Marine Corps has an outsized effect on Navy force planning. While the Navy and the Marines exhibit a sincere and genuine single team spirit conducting global naval operations, they ...

With everyone talking about them, what IS a naval corvette? Chuck Hill discusses what they are, why they are important, and where they might go.

French maritime strategy has been on full public display with the deployment of the French Carrier Strike Group (CSG) from November 2024 to April 2025, carrying out an extended deployment across the ...

Chokepoints and Littorals Topic Week By Robert C. Rasmussen “There are two types of Arctic problems – the imaginary and the real. Of the two, the imaginary are the most real.” –Vilhjalmur Stefansson ...

“Having therefore no foreign establishments, either colonial or military, the ships of war of the United States, in war, will be like land birds, unable to fly far from their own shores. To provide ...

NATO Naval Power Week By Anna Matilde Bassoli After more than a year of disrupted global trade, the Red Sea Crisis appears to have no end in sight. Rather, in a series of leaked messages, senior U.S.

The following originally appeared in the summer 1985 edition of the Naval War College Review and is republished with permission. Read it in its original form here. By Floyd D. Kennedy Jr “Air Defense ...

In this era of increasing danger, great power competition, and uncertain loyalties, the time has come for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to declare its independence. As at the time of its ...