Tag: U.S. Navy

Read part one HERE, part two HERE, part three HERE, and part four HERE. The fifth excerpt from the upcoming book, “Mastering Fear: A Navy SEAL’s Guide” by Brandon Webb and John David Mann: I grew up on the water. I love it—spent my childhood in it and a good chunk of my adulthood, too. But […]

An excerpt from the upcoming book, “Mastering Fear: A Navy SEAL’s Guide” by Brandon Webb and John David Mann: My friend Kamal is a world traveler — he has meditated with Tibetan monks in the Dalai Lama’s monastery, trekked the Himalayas, and hiked the Camino de Santiago in Spain. He served in the U.S. Army […]

In May, it was announced that the United States was “disinviting” China from participating in the annual Rim of Pacific (RIMPAC) training exercise that aims to increase interoperability between allies national Navies in the Pacific. At the time, the U.S. cited China’s aggressive behavior in the South China Sea, rapidly expanding their military presence and […]

This year’s Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercises are currently underway, with more than two dozen nations participating and still more eavesdropping from nearby. The training cycle has included participation from 45 surface ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 members of some 26 national militaries — but the real spectacle of the […]

The United States employs a three-tier missile defense apparatus that allows it to cover as much territory as possible while providing an overlapping blanket of capability in the event the first or even second layer of defense were to fail to intercept an aggressor’s incoming ballistic missile. However, with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific […]

Last week, news broke that Chinese hackers had successfully infiltrated an unnamed U.S. Defense contractor, making off with over 600 gigabytes of data relating to America’s undersea warfare efforts. The compromised data included signals and sensor data, information relating to cryptographic systems, and the Navy submarine development unit’s electronic warfare library — but perhaps the […]

When I was a kid, blessed with my ignorance of geopolitics and the looming rise of terrorism, I was aware of only a few legitimate threats to my safety and well-being. Rocky, I was aware, had already successfully defused the Cold War through the art of boxing, which left only looming concerns about clowns, quicksand […]

The world was a different place in 1986. Mike Tyson won his first title that year, making him the youngest man ever to do so. A brand new Ford Mustang cost less than $7,500, and Tom Cruise was the face of what may have been the most successful military recruitment campaign in U.S. history. Here […]

Guest author William Bayless: William spent 9 years on active duty Navy as an analyst with 2 years aboard the USS John F. Kennedy and duty stations in Maryland and the United Kingdom. He has an MBA as well as a two year degree in Information Systems and a solid foundation of basic cyber security principles and […]

Cmdr. Alfredo J. Sanchez, former commander of the USS John S. McCain (DDG-56), entered a guilty plea to a single charge of negligence for his role in a tragic collision between the Arleigh Burke Class guided missile destroyer and the Alnic MC, a merchant ship, that took place off the coast of Singapore last year. […]

In recent months, much ado has been made about America’s diplomatic opponents developing anti-ship capabilities that we currently have no defense against. Chinese and Russian anti-ship missiles, capable of achieving hypersonic speeds, represent a kind of threat the United States hasn’t faced in decades: a technology that America is not only behind on, but apparently, […]

Although the U.S. reportedly tested an operational hypersonic flight vehicle in cooperation with Australia last year, statements made by Air Force Materiel Command commander, Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, on Tuesday seem to indicate that America is significantly behind both Russia and China in the race to field capable hypersonic platforms. Hypersonic velocities, or speeds that exceed […]