Insightful analysis on the recent (surprise) changes at the top of the PLA Navy.

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Hiking in NH. Great day-after-Christmas activity.

Nimitz and Mahan at the National Portrait Gallery!

Disappointing football results at Foxboro today. Decent 4th quarter play. Next year.

It’s not even 2024 yet and the election year has me exhausted already.

In the buildup to this week's Army-Navy game, here's a video filled with "Yard gouge" for all you USNA alumni and fans.
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What are the odds the US will strike the Houthi base from whence all those UAVs are being launched?

Great video about the physical evolution of the U.S. Naval Academy from its original 10 acre Fort Severn to current day grandeur. news.usni.org/2023/12/04/u...

Had a fun conversation with David Poyer, author of the Dan Lenson series of naval novels, last week. We talked about his newest book (The Academy), in which Lenson goes back to USNA as the Superintendent.
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I'm reading essay contest submissions on a rainy Saturday morning. One author used the word "hierophanies" multiple times. The paper reads like a grad school seminar held in a French café that has gone off the rails. Know your audience, people!

Sometimes controversial but always influential, Henry Kissinger had major impacts on the U.S. military. This 2007 Naval History article recounts the 1972 decision to blockade North Vietnam to help bring an end to the war. www.usni.org/magazines/na...

Here's my Editor's Page from the December issue of @usniproceedings.bsky.social
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