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The United States Coast Guard has spent the better part of the twenty-first century being asked…
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Admiral Samuel Paparo’s April 2026 posture statement to Congress is not simply a budget document or…
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The Commander of CENTCOM is Admiral Brad Cooper, USNA Class of 1989. A Kill Web is…
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We tend to measure historical change by its products: new weapons systems, new doctrines, new institutions,…
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For a long time, we viewed missile defense as an essentially technical problem. A problem of…
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