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Former Special Forces Warrant Officer Steve Balestrieri analyzes the U.S. Navy's maintenance crisis. Following a 2021 collision, the $3 billion USS Connecticut remains stuck...
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Former Special Forces Warrant Officer Steve Balestrieri analyzes the U.S. Navy's maintenance crisis. Following a 2021 collision, the $3 billion USS Connecticut remains stuck...
Defense columnist Steve Balestrieri analyzes the struggles of Russia’s Amur-class submarine program. Marketed as the ultimate stealth successor to the Kilo-class with AIP and...
The UK is advancing its Dreadnought-class submarines, a 18,600-ton "fly-by-wire" platform designed to replace the Vanguard fleet. Built with U.S. synergy via the Common...
The retirement of the Ohio-class SSGNs represents the single largest loss of conventional "magazine depth" in the history of the U.S. Navy. In 2026,...
The U.S. Navy is currently trapped in what strategic analysts call a "Doom Loop"—a self-reinforcing cycle where industrial decay, design instability, and workforce shortages...
The deployment of HMS Anson illustrates the "Availability Trap" facing mid-sized blue-water navies in 2026. While the AUKUS framework is essential for future stability...
America fired hundreds of Tomahawk cruise missiles in the opening days of the Iran War — and builds roughly 90 per year to replace...
Christian D. Orr, former Air Force Security Forces officer, federal law enforcement veteran, and private military contractor, examines whether the Virginia Payload Module —...
Isaac Seitz, defense columnist and Strategic Intelligence graduate, maps the compounding crisis in U.S. Navy long-range strike capacity. The simultaneous retirement of four Ohio-class...
Caleb Larson, former POLITICO Europe defense reporter, examines the U.S. Navy's decision to extend the service lives of USS Ohio and USS Florida. Following...