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China Mistakenly Challenges Andrew Jackson to a Duel
Commentary
The United States Navy will be making a port call in Taiwan in the near future. The only questions that remain are where, when, and how many ships of what type will drop ancho...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Evening in America?
Commentary
This past weekend marked the annual Reagan National Defense Forum, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. It was the first Forum since the ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Past Problems Can't Stop the U.S. Navy From Building a New Frigate
Commentary
The United States Navy should not take council from its fears when it comes to the design of its new frigate. While it is true that technical challenges and cost overruns asso...
By Jerry Hendrix
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The Sum of Their Fears: The MQ-25 Stingray
Commentary
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,” sayeth the Bard in a line with ominous foreboding. Such potent can also be read into the decision that Northrop Grumman was drop...
By Jerry Hendrix
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US Space Policy Should Aim to Preserve Advantage on the New Frontier
The administration of Donald Trump is the first of the 21st century to not be entirely preoccupied by issues of terrorism and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Such conditions pro...
By Adam Routh & Jerry Hendrix
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Why the United States Needs a 355-Ship Navy Now
Commentary
If we do not maintain global supremacy on the seas, nations hostile to our principles will fill the gaps. One of President Trump’s signature campaign promises to the American...
By Jerry Hendrix & Robert C. O'Brien
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Worries about Trump’s Generals Are Overblown
It seems that President Trump’s reliance upon retired and active-duty generals in staffing the upper echelons of his administration has raised concerns among a large number of...
By Adam Routh & Jerry Hendrix
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Building a 355-Ship Navy: It’s Not Just the Number, It’s the Mix
There is a debate ongoing within national security circles regarding the size of the United States Navy. How many ships does the nation require to uphold its interests on the ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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North Korea’s Nuclear Threat Requires Diplomatic Talks
This is a hard essay to write. It is admittedly an awkward attempt to distill a lesson from a tragedy in order to apply it to a far larger problem facing our nation. In the na...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Our navy is broken, and that is a bad thing
The recent string of ship collisions in the western Pacific is a clarion call to the American nation that its Navy is on the brink of combat ineffectiveness. This dismal condi...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Imagining a War With North Korea—It's Not Unthinkable
This week marks the beginning of the Ulchi-Freedom Guardian exercise, an annual wargame conducted by the U.S.-South Korean alliance. The exercise comes on the heels of North K...
By Jerry Hendrix
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The US Air Force Needs More Bombers Than It’s Asking For
In a future combat zone dominated by advanced 3-D air search radars, directed-energy weapons, electromagnetic railguns, and hypersonic missiles, there is still room — indeed, ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Trump Acts To Revitalize America’s Defense Industrial Base
President Donald Trump has identified a fact few of his recent predecessors have understood: the Defense Industrial Base of the United States (DIB) is a critical component of ...
By Jerry Hendrix & Robert C. O'Brien
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To Keep Control of the Seas and the World, Trump Must Rebuild the Navy
It is time for the United States to respond strongly to aggressions upon the high seas and demonstrate its continued command of the oceans. American resolve will deter aggress...
By Jerry Hendrix
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It's Long Past Time for Our NATO Allies to Meet Their Defense-Spending Commitments
Chancellor Angela Merkel, campaigning at a Munich beer garden this Memorial Day weekend, certainly delighted American citizens as they paused to remember their sacred war dead...
By Jerry Hendrix
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NATO Must Strengthen Its Anti-Submarine Capabilities to Meet the Russian Threat
The Russian Bear has emerged from a long hibernation to threaten American and NATO interests with highly capable submarines in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. But neither the ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Geography and the Coming US-China War at Sea
Soon, steel-hulled ships will clash in battle. Missiles belching fire will rise quickly from launch tubes, rapidly gathering speed and maneuverability before slamming into ene...
By Jerry Hendrix & Robert Bateman
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Below Glideslope: The MQ-25 Stingray Appears to be Heading for a Ramp Strike
Even as reports surface of American supercarriers and their embarked air-wings hurriedly steaming towards the Korean peninsula, the saga of the Navy’s carrier based unmanned a...
By Jerry Hendrix
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How Trump Can Build a 350-Ship Navy
When President Donald Trump wanted to send a message to North Korea, he did it the old-fashioned way: by sending the USS Carl Vinson—a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier that holds...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Xi’s Visit Could Signal US Decline, if We Let It
With Xi Jinping journeying to President Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, it is worthwhile to question whether the world is witnessing the slow unfolding of o...
By Jerry Hendrix
