By Richard R. Burgess, Senior Editor ARLINGTON, Va. — The. U.S. Navy has retired the Bell TH-57 Sea Ranger helicopter from training naval aviators after 57 years of training Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and foreign naval aviators to fly…
Sea Power: The Decisive Factor in the American Revolution
“The Continental Navy, with few exceptions, was a wasteful and humiliating fiasco.” So wrote Ian Toll in his introductory chapter in “Six Frigates” in his effort to set the stage for the construction of the ships that would lay the…
Navy Determines Planned Ship Inactivations for Fiscal 2026
By Richard R. Burgess, Senior Editor ARLINGTON, Va. — The U.S. Navy plans to inactivate or transfer eight ships during fiscal 2026, including two warships and six auxiliary ships, the service said in a Sept. 12 internal message to the…
Navy Determines Planned Ship Inactivations for Fiscal 2026
By Richard R. Burgess, Senior Editor ARLINGTON, Va. — The U.S. Navy plans to inactivate or transfer eight ships during fiscal 2026, including two warships and six auxiliary ships, the service said in a Sept. 12 internal message to the…
Naval Aviation at Highest Readiness in Years, ‘Air Boss’ Said
By Richard R. Burgess, Senior Editor ARLINGTON, Virginia — U.S. naval aviation is at its highest readiness in years, a senior naval aviation admiral said to an audience in Washington and online. Speaking Aug. 26 in an event of the…
Coast Guard District is Economic Nerve Center with Complex Northern Border Challenge
Editor’s Note: Since this article first appeared in the July/August issue of Seapower, the 9th District has been renamed the Great Lakes District. The 9th Coast Guard District, or D9 as it is known to the 5,000 people stationed at…
Shipbuilding Investment: The Policy Proposals and Political Environment in Washington
By Luke Lorenz and Sonia Toloczko From Seapower’s July/August Issue: Washington Report Since American shipbuilding peaked during WWII, the production of U.S.-flagged vessels has dropped precipitously despite American imports rising at a similarly steep rate. The text of the recently…
Coast Guard Academy Think Tank Puts Polar Issues Front and Center
The Arctic is a hot topic these days. As sea ice melts, many questions surface: How should Arctic nations manage more shipping traffic while preserving the delicate environment? Can countries maintain a history of regional cooperation in this increasingly contested…
Securing the Backbone: The Defense Industrial Base
By Ryan Caughill, President, Western New York Council, Navy League of the United States. “You can’t fight tomorrow’s war with yesterday’s plans.” In the summer of 2018, I completed my internship at Moog Inc., one of the United States’ premier…
Airspace around Coast Guard Cutters Now Restricted for Drones
By Richard R. Burgess, Senior Editor ARLINGTON, Va. — The Federal Aviation Administration has declared the airspace in the vicinity of U.S. Coast Guard cutters to be restricted airspace to unmanned aerial systems (UAS). In a June 16 directive from…
