I regret to share the following announcement.Fair winds and following seas.  ..read more

From 1972 until 1993, Dr. Vince Davis served as the Director of the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky, where I currently work.  Before coming to Lexington, Dr. Davis served as an USN aviator and intelligence officer.  In 1967, he published the Admirals Lobby, a study of the US Navy as a political and bureaucratic lobbying group.  I recently had ..read more

YOKOSUKA, Japan (July 11, 2017) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) moves into Dry Dock 4 at Fleet Activities (FLEACT) Yokosuka to continue repairs and assess damage sustained from its June 17 collision with a merchant vessel. FLEACT Yokosuka provides, maintains, and operates base facilities and services in support of U.S. 7th Fleet's forward-deployed ..read more

            In a 19 January 1877 letter to The Times of London, the former Chief Naval Constructor (and then member of the British Parliament), Sir Edward Reed attempted to explain some of the reasons for the rapidly rising cost of British capital ships. The battleship HMS Devastation had been completed in 1871 at a cost of 361,438 pounds, but the cost of HMS Inflexible, launched in 1876 and ..read more

USS Porter launching cruise missiles towards Syria. I watched Nikki Haley's speech in the UN on social media this morning, and I quickly realized two things: America was pissed off. The world was now aware America was pissed off. If you haven't seen that video yet, the stare she gives the Russian ambassador makes it must see viewing. I was impressed. When President Obama gave Syria a red ..read more

Earlier this week I attended the Navy League's annual "Sea-Air-Space" Symposium, and among the thousands of attendees were a number of my friends in the Navy trade press. Quite independently, three working journalists each brought up what one of them called the "CNO's gag order"--recently released guidance by the CNO to Navy Leadership discussed yesterday by Sydney Freedberg in a piece that also ..read more

When I restarted the blog, I was serious. I really do intend to write a lot in the near future. The hick-up in consistency is completely my fault... basically, work came to me the first week of February and said they would spend a whole bunch of money for me to take a certification exam on March 10th if I was interested. I said yes. Then the rule of three came fast and furious. Basically, three ..read more

Each week Information Dissemination will present a Question of the Week for professional consideration and discussion. The question will remain at the top of the blog from Monday at 12:00am until Friday 5:00pm. Please scroll down for new contributions. This weeks question: How should reduced manning concepts on ships and the move to unmanned aviation platforms impact graduating classes of ..read more

The United States Naval Institute News service was the first to report that President Trump would appoint financier Philip Bilden to be nominated for Secretary of the Navy. USNI News was among the last to report Philip Bilden would drop out. Financier Philip Bilden has withdrawn himself from consideration to be the next Secretary of the Navy, he said in a Sunday statement. In the statement ..read more

Each week Information Dissemination will present a Question of the Week for professional consideration and discussion. The question will remain at the top of the blog from Monday at 12:00am until Friday 5:00pm. Please scroll down for new contributions. This weeks question: CSBA's new report Restoring American Seapower: A New Fleet Architecture for the United States Navy calls for smaller ..read more