Navy Matters

Carriers are mammoth vessels.  Why?  Why? This isn’t a trick question but it’s one that we never think about.  The answer is that t...

The Navy continues on its inexorable path to irrelevance – an irrelevance brought on by having too few ships that are too expensive and too...

The Captain of a ship is a special position.  Historically and traditionally, the Captain is granted absolute authority but is also held to...

I dislike repeating posts or articles from other authors if I can’t add value through analysis.  I’d much rather just recommend it and move...

Diversity – the Holy Grail of liberalism.  That magic state wherein anything created by two people of different racial backgrounds is, by d...

One of the most common justifications for a new design aircraft is that the existing one is too maintenance intensive (even though it was u...

We have a report that a Harpoon test fire from the LCS USS Coronado failed during a RIMPAC 2016 SINXEX (1).  The missile apparently launch...