In the past year, Washington has begun to treat maritime power as what it truly is: national security infrastructure. On ...

On March 4, 2025, President Donald Trump addressed a Joint Session of Congress for the first time in his second term. An hour and 20 minutes into his speech, he declared: “To boost our defense ...

In November 2012, then president Hu Jintao’s work report to the Chinese Communist Party’s 18th Party Congress was a defining moment in China’s maritime history. Hu declared that China’s objective is ...

America just skipped December’s NATO foreign ministers’ meeting. That’s a first in over two decades. Part of the reason is the alliance’s irrelevance to President Donald Trump’s personalized, ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: America’s allies contribute their own forces to international efforts to manage China’s rise as a military power. But that doesn’t mean the United States shouldn’t ...

Today, the Trump Administration signed a new executive order on shipbuilding: the first official action of the new “Office of Shipbuilding” that the President announced during his Joint Address to ...

Core Power, NorthStandard, and Lloyd’s Register (LR) jointly published Advanced Maritime Nuclear: A unique opportunity for the UK. The new paper sets out a policy framework for the UK Government to ...

The following is from the Department of Defense’s Aug. 7, 2013 Command and Control forJoint Maritime Operations: Maritime power, in the broadest sense, is military, diplomatic, and economic power or ...

Sea power begins with economic power. MAP and the SHIPS Act seek to rebuild the maritime industrial base—shipyards, mariners, logistics networks, and commercial fleets—that underpins U.S. naval ...

The Naval Chief said the strategic necessity of Carrier Battle Groups was forcefully demonstrated during Operation Sindoor.