Chris Denzel is an intelligence officer and operational planner. He is currently serving as the J-52 Posture Plans Officer, U.S. Forces Japan. He previously served as the G-5 bilateral U.S.-Japan ...

Jonathan Selling is Executive Producer and Co-Host of the Sea Control podcast. Contact the podcast team at [email protected].

Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Hough joins the podcast to discuss his article, “Diplomacy for Better Stand-In Force Access in Japan.” Lieutenant Colonel Hough is a combat engineer officer serving as an ...

In the decade since Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work began his 2014 initiative to reinvigorate wargaming, there has been a decided uptick in the number of wargames being conducted for DoD.

This republication is adapted from “ War without Surprises—Education for Command in the People’s Liberation Army Navy,” published by the Naval War College Review of the U.S. Naval War College. It is ...

NATO Naval Power Week By Anna Matilde Bassoli After more than a year of disrupted global trade, the Red Sea Crisis appears to have no end in sight. Rather, in a series of leaked messages, senior U.S.

French maritime strategy has been on full public display with the deployment of the French Carrier Strike Group (CSG) from November 2024 to April 2025, carrying out an extended deployment across the ...

In this era of increasing danger, great power competition, and uncertain loyalties, the time has come for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to declare its independence. As at the time of its ...

Links 1. “ Equip the Mobile Reconnaissance Battalion Now More than a new platform,” by Maj Brent Jurmu, Capt Brandon Klewicki, and Maj Matthew Tweedy, Marine Corps Gazette, May 2024.

LCDR Nathan Sawyer joins the podcast to discuss his article in USNI Proceedings, “Beyond Tactics: How the Hawkeye Proved the Power of Adaptability in the Red Sea.” They discuss the role of the E-2 ...