Over at Foreign Policy, a cheery Huzzah! goes out to Great Britain and the Royal Navy for returning to waters east of Suez.

Britannia Helps Rule the Waves

Not everything that counts can be counted (and not everything that can be counted counts) –

https://blog.usni.org/posts/2019/02/19/measuring-readiness-means-more-than-measuring-what-you-can-measure

Because it did not and could not overawe the Imperial Japanese Navy –

https://blog.usni.org/posts/2019/02/05/why-the-great-white-fleet-failed

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/430314-russias-latest-wonder-weapon-is-more-propaganda-than-power

On the need for an air-power theorist of the caliber of a Clausewitz or Corbett to weigh the merits of “light attack” in the U.S. Air Force:

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/beyond-10s-and-f-35s-let%E2%80%99s-have-informed-debate-about-air-power-43972

 

Wherein I renew the fight against ideas about naval power that refuse to die –

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/does-us-navy-really-need-worry-about-size-fleet-43052

An Aristotelian approach to becoming a strategist for our ultramodern age:

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2019-02/habits-strategy