It’s nobody’s lake — let’s keep it that way.

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/435685-dont-let-russia-create-a-caribbean-in-the-arctic

It’s all about dollars and cents –

https://blog.usni.org/posts/2019/03/20/f-15x-vs-f-35-comes-down-to

Deterrence.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/hanoi-summit-%E2%80%93-we-asked-james-holmes-what-happens-next-us-north-korea-relations-47097

https://news.yahoo.com/u-marine-corp-wants-anti-130000341.html

Why military officers should be devil’s advocates –

https://blog.usni.org/posts/2019/03/05/be-devils-advocates-war-college-graduates

Ships conducting FONOPs come and go; upholding maritime freedom demands forces that go and stay –

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/are-freedom-navigation-operations-east-asia-enough-45257

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