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Problems with the Optimized Fleet Response Plan Government Matters

U.S. Navy's Budget Battles Could End in 'Victory at Sea' for China The Hill

Cutting the Coast Guard Torpedoes our National Security The Hill

Iran's Grand Strategy: Gulf Crisis Keeps US From Helping Israel in a Two-Front War The Hill

Deterrence and Intelligence in the Western Pacific RealClear Defense

Transcript: The Rise of China’s Navy: A Discussion with Capt. James Fanell Hudson Institute

Adapting Command and Control for 21st Century Seapower CIMSEC

Retiring the USS Harry S. Truman Is a Terrible Idea National Review

China Wants to Replace the U.S. in the Pacific The Hill

Deploy the Next-Gen Missile-Defense Network in Pieces Defense One

John McCain Exemplified the Virtues of a Patriot The Hill

Taiwan is Key to U.S. Power in Pacific The Hill

America Can’t Afford to Cede the Seas Wall Street Journal

China’s Salami-Slicing Policy toward Taiwan National Review Online

China Sets Its Sights on South America American Interest

Raid the Defense Budget to Build the Wall? Hudson Institute

Notes of Caution on the Navy's Forthcoming Force Structure Assessment War on the Rocks

American Naval Power: The Last Great Impediment to China's Global Dominance The Hill

The Future of Navy Combat Systems U.S. Naval Institute

The U.S. Navy Lowers Its Sights Wall Street Journal

The Sinews Of Empire Hoover Institution

The National Security Strategy’s Implications for Seapower Texas National Security Review

Lessons From the Loss of ARA San Juan Real Clear Defense

Trump’s Seapower Contradiction Real Clear Defense

U.S. Navy Reports on Deadly Ship Collisions Defense and Aerospace Report

USS Fitzgerald & McCain Collisions Midrats Podcast

Inflection Point for American Seapower Real Clear Defense

Seablindness: How Political Neglect is Choking American Seapower and What to Do About It - New Book from Seth Cropsey Hudson.org

Bryan McGrath on Recent Incidents With U.S. Navy Ships C-SPAN

Has the Navy Reached Its Breaking Point? Wall Street Journal

For Those In Peril On The Sea NPR

Do Repeated Navy Collisions Suggest a Systematic Problem? PBS

Three Questions Arising From Recent U.S. Navy Collisions Real Clear Defense

When It Comes to the Navy, Size Matters Real Clear Defense

How Could This Happen? The Fitzgerald, the U.S. Navy, and Collisions At Sea War on the Rocks

Bully: China Continues its Diplomatic Campaign Against Taiwan Hudson.org

A Larger Fleet Is Not Enough American Interest

A Guide to the Fleet the United States Needs War on the Rocks

The Biggest Issues Facing Our Navy And Military Strategy Across The Seas Federalist Radio Hour

Trump's US Navy Priorities, Fleet Size & Future Naval Warfare Defense & Aerospace Report

Congress and the Navy: Forty Years of Dysfunction War on the Rocks

American Seapower American Seapower Speaking Tour

A Quick Review of the Navy's New Force Structure Assessment War on the Rocks

Les océans au cœur de l'équation stratégique mondiale France Forum

Thoughts on Growing a Navy Hudson.org

Quick Hit: Small Surface Combatants and the 350-Ship Navy Hudson.org

The Next Secretary of the Navy Real Clear Defense

Sea Power Vital for Maryland Capital Gazette

U.S, Israel, and Seapower in the East Med CIMSEC

USS Zumwalt, Baltimore and Freedom of the Seas National Interest

The Critical Year Ahead: Some Unsolicited Advice for Navy Leadership Scout

Is Naval Conflict With China Inevitable? Real Clear Politics

To Buy the Next Fleet, We Must Change the Navy USNI News

War and Survivability of U.S. Naval Forces War on the Rocks

A Century After the Castles of Steel: Lessons from the Battle of Jutland War on the Rocks

The Alfred E. Neuman Defense Policy Real Clear Defense

Drone-Flattop Wedding & the Wisdom of Seth Cropsey Real Clear Defense

New American Grand Strategy Real Clear Defense

"You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat": Principles for Getting the U.S Navy Right War on the Rocks

The U.S. Navy's Surface Force Just Got a Lot Deadlier War on the Rocks

Iran's Treatment of U.S. Sailors and Contempt for International Agreements Real Clear Defense

Future Navy & Future Marines John Batchelor Show

S.O.S. for a Declining American Navy Wall Street Journal

Some New Year's Thoughts On Aircraft Carriers Real Clear Defense

Give Taiwan the Tools to Defend Itself Real Clear Defense

Help Taiwan Get Submarines Real Clear Defense

Restore the U.S. Sixth Fleet National Review Online

The Pro-Carrier Argument the Navy Cannot Make War on the Rocks

How Many Aircraft Carriers Does the US Need? The Hill

Fleet Size Does Matter, Secretary Mabus Hudson.org

How This US Navy Admiral Gives In to China Is Exactly What's Wrong With US Power Today Defense One

China, Russia Are Challenging Our Navy: Is Our Submarine Program Prepared? PJ Media

Secretary Mabus, Fleet Size, and Facts Information Dissemination

A Bigger Navy and the Spirit of 2007 War on the Rocks

Why Politico Is Dead Wrong to Be Pleased About Our Shrinking Naval Power PJ Media

Obama Fails to Challenge Beijing's Island-building Campaign Real Clear Defense

Advice on Seapower to the Next U.S. President Real Clear Defense

The Other Islands in the West Pacific The Hill

Why China Wants Aircraft Carriers National Interest Online

Beijing Threatens the International Order Real Clear Defense

America's Defense Still Requires Aircraft Carriers National Review Online

Responding to Washington Post's "Fact Checker" on April 22, 2015 Hudson.org

Defense Budget Tomfoolery The Hill

America's New Maritime Strategy: How Will China Respond? National Interest Online

The New Naval Strategy: A Mixed Bag Weekly Standard Online

Our Navy Is Getting Dangerously Smaller, And No One Is Paying Attention PJ Media

No, the Navy Isn't Big Enough War on the Rocks

When Islamic State Starts Hitting Ships Wall Street Journal

Asian Maritime Security and a Rising China War on the Rocks Podcast

Aircraft Carriers and Maritime Strategy C-SPAN 3

Technology, Timing, Threats and the Future of the U.S. Surface Fleet Real Clear Defense

Rough Waters Ahead: How to Maximize the Power of the U.S. Navy's Surface Fleet National Interest

Not Just Hagel: Navy Captain Fired for Questioning Obama Foreign Policy PJ Media

Unconstrained Grand Strategy War on the Rocks

The CNO is Wrong When He Says Seven Month Deployments are "Achievable and Sustainable" InformationDissemination.net

Naval and Maritime Strategy War on the Rocks

A Naval Disaster in the Making Weekly Standard

CNO's Losing Battle to Avoid a Hollow Navy Real Clear Defense

The Paradox of American Naval Power War on the Rocks

Getting Unmanned Naval Aviation Right War on the Rocks

Commentary: Protect the Tomahawk Defense News

Ships and Strategy RealClearDefense

Conflict in the South China Sea Center for Security Policy

Obama's "New" Doctrine: What Americans Want, but Not What They Need War on the Rocks Online

Not Every Flattop Is an Aircraft Carrier RealClearDefense

Fate of the Tomahawk Cruise Missile The Hill

U.S. Navy for the 21st Century: Panel Discussion RealClearDefense

Estranged Over a Rising China War on the Rocks

Aircraft Carriers Remain Indispensable to American Seapower The Hill

The Real Reason China Wants Aircraft Carriers Real Clear Defense

Does Strategy Drive the U.S. Defense Budget? Pajamas Media

Mounting U.S. Tension with China over Territorial Disputes Fox Business

Ignoring the Law on Carrier Numbers War on the Rocks

The Navy Is in Decline and the CNO Believes the Answer Is More Jointness InformationDissemination.net

Don't Bury the Tomahawk Real Clear Defense

This is What Assumption of Additional Risk Looks Like InformationDissemination.net

Some Unsolicited Input on the Small Surface Combatant InformationDissemination.net

Hospital Ships to Be Counted in U.S. Combat Fleet Weekly Standard Online

America's Navy Needs 12 Carriers & Three Hubs RealClearDefense

The Navy Moves Toward Smarter Shipbuilding The American Interest

On Ukraine, America has Good Options Weekly Standard Online

Musings on the Hagel Budget InformationDissemination.net

Maritime Strategy and Control of the Seas with Seth Cropsey U.S. Naval Institute

Strategic Depth & Israel's Maritime Strategy Real Clear Defense

Chinese Power Play PJ Media

America Has No Military Strategy for China RealClearDefense

The Navy's New Littoral Combat Ship: Don't Sink, Experiment Hudson Center for American Seapower

China's Growing Challenge to U.S. Naval Power Wall Street Journal

Decline at Sea is a Political Choice The American Interest

Seth Cropsey on The John Batchelor Show KNSS 1330 Newsradio

Sea-questration The Weekly Standard

Book review of Adm. Zumwalt's "The Man Who Modernized the Navy" Wall Street Journal

The Size of the Navy Matters Weekly Standard Online

A Foreign Policy Failure to Acknowledge the Obvious Wall Street Journal

Defeat at Sea: The U.S. Naval Implosion of 2050 PJ Media

China's Regional Ambitions Threaten U.S. Allies PJ Media

Ebb Tide The American Interest

Major Speech on Shrinking U.S. Seapower Goes Ignored PJ Media

The Tipping Point Weekly Standard Online

Obama's Appeasement Weekly Standard Online

Words Have Consequences Weekly Standard Online

No Pain No Gain Weekly Standard Online

Targeting Piracy Washington Times

We Should Build a Bigger Navy Weekly Standard

To the Shores of Tripoli . . . Weekly Standard

Don't Give Up the Ships Weekly Standard

Unilateral Naval Disarmament Weekly Standard Online