Resident Experts
Non-Resident Experts
John D. McCown
Non-Resident Senior Fellow
Dr. Jeff Harley
Non-Resident Senior Fellow
Michael Roberts
Non-Resident Senior FellowReports
Pier Review: Leveraging the Allied Maritime Industrial Base for U.S. Shipbuilding
Acquisitions & Budget, Civil-Military, Industry & Innovation, Personnel, Political Economy, Surface Warfare, Undersea Warfare
Quoted in Publication
Patriot Missile Demand Tests Washington’s Taiwan Priorities
Asia & the Indo-Pacific, Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design
The MOC
The Hormuz Crisis and the Case for Reconnecting the Navy and Merchant Marine
MENA, Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Political Economy, Surface Warfare
The MOC
Defense Reinvestment as Naval Strategy: Sector-Based Contributions and Industrial Base Competition
Acquisitions & Budget, Industry & Innovation, Political Economy
The MOC
The Fleet in Being in the 21st Century: A Book Review
Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Strategy & Doctrine, Surface Warfare
External Article
Let Foreign Yards Build U.S. Navy Auxiliary and Service Ships Now
Acquisitions & Budget, Political Economy
Maritime Nation
Meeting the MARAD Administrator | The Honorable Stephen Carmel
Acquisitions & Budget, Energy and Resource Security, Force Design, Industry & Innovation, Political Economy
External Article
It’s Crunch Time for Rebuilding American Shipbuilding
Acquisitions & Budget, Industry & Innovation
External Publication
The Future of Naval Autonomous Vessels: The Changing Character of Sea Warfare
Acquisitions & Budget, AI & Cyber, Surface Warfare, Undersea Warfare
The MOC
Dual Use Initiative By China Could Exponentially Increase Its Missile Launch Platforms
Acquisitions & Budget, Hybrid Threats, Industry & Innovation, Surface Warfare
The MOC
Failure to Launch: How Political Backpedaling Could Hand China the Carrier Edge
Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Industry & Innovation, Political Economy, Surface Warfare
The MOC
Solving the Navy’s Frigate Problem: The Case for Bold, Persistent Experimentation
Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Industry & Innovation
Quoted in Publication
Key Elements of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act
Acquisitions & Budget, Civil-Military
In the News
Atlantic Council launches Revitalizing US Shipbuilding Task Force to bolster US maritime industrial base
Acquisitions & Budget, AI & Cyber, Force Design, Industry & Innovation, Personnel, Surface Warfare, Undersea Warfare
Podcast
Sea Control 591: Maritime Statecraft and Its Future with Steve Brock and Hunter Stires
Acquisitions & Budget, Geopolitics, Industry & Innovation, Political Economy, Surface Warfare
External Publication
Maritime America: Sea Power, the Early Republic, and America’s Lost Maritime Strategic Tradition
Americas, Acquisitions & Budget, Civil-Military, Force Design, Geopolitics, International Law, Political Economy, Surface Warfare
The MOC
Reviving the Escort Carrier for the Drone Age
Acquisitions & Budget, Industry & Innovation, Surface Warfare
Quoted in Publication
Industry Divided on USTR’s China Port Fee Suspension
Acquisitions & Budget, Geopolitics, Industry & Innovation
External Article
Is the US Navy Unprepared? Yes and No.
Acquisitions & Budget, Civil-Military, Political Economy
The MOC
From Ballpark to Battlespace: Applying Moneyball to Fleet Design
Acquisitions & Budget, AI & Cyber, Force Design
Podcast
IPDI Spotlight: Reimagining the Allied Maritime Industrial Base
Asia & the Indo-Pacific, Acquisitions & Budget, Industry & Innovation, Political Economy, Surface Warfare, Undersea Warfare
External Article
Anchor Acquisition and Force Development on Targeting China’s C4ISR
Asia & the Indo-Pacific, Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Geopolitics
External Article
How Artificial Intelligence Can Provide a Big Assist to Navy Ship Maintenance
Acquisitions & Budget, AI & Cyber, Surface Warfare
The MOC
America’s Fleet of Ship-to-Shore Connectors: A Looming Crisis
Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Strategy & Doctrine
External Article
A Bad Idea: Shuttering Navy Office for Unmanned Systems, Small Combatants
Acquisitions & Budget, AI & Cyber, Political Economy
External Article
How the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Will Shape Key Defense Priorities
Acquisitions & Budget, Political Economy
The MOC
Reindustrializing America: Wisdom from the Father of the Nuclear Navy
Acquisitions & Budget, Civil-Military, Energy and Resource Security, Industry & Innovation, Undersea Warfare
Reports
Returning from Ebb Tide: Renewing the United States Commercial Maritime Enterprise
Acquisitions & Budget, AI & Cyber, Energy and Resource Security, Force Design, Geopolitics, Industry & Innovation, Personnel, Political Economy, Strategy & Doctrine
Maritime Nation
From Keel to Commissioning: How to Build More Ships
Acquisitions & Budget, AI & Cyber, Industry & Innovation
The MOC
Defense Spending for Protracted Conflict: Lessons from the Napoleonic Wars
Acquisitions & Budget, Geopolitics
External Article
How a Prototype Approach can Help the Navy Rebuild its Fighting Capability
Acquisitions & Budget, Industry & Innovation
The MOC
Anti-Submarine Warfare: The U.S. Navy’s Strategic Imperative
Acquisitions & Budget, Undersea Warfare
The MOC
The U.S. Navy’s Hybrid Fleet: Getting More Mission Ready Players on the Field
Acquisitions & Budget, AI & Cyber, Industry & Innovation
The MOC
Infantry Wins Battles, Logistics Wins Wars: The Role of the Army’s “Little Navy” in the Pacific
Asia & the Indo-Pacific, Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design
External Article
Memo to Next President: Bolster the Merchant Marine Fleet
Acquisitions & Budget, Political Economy
The MOC
The CMV-22 OSPREY: A Game-Changer for Today’s COD and Tomorrow’s Contested Combat Logistics Support
Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Surface Warfare
The MOC
Military Personnel Need Robust Financial Education More than Ever
Acquisitions & Budget, Personnel
The MOC
Transition Assistance Programs for the Submarine Industrial Base Workforce
Acquisitions & Budget, Industry & Innovation, Personnel
The MOC
Use the Defense Production Act to Jump-start Navy Munitions Production
Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Industry & Innovation
The MOC
The European Defense Industrial Strategy: Moving the EU Closer to Strategic Autonomy
Europe & Eurasia, Acquisitions & Budget, Industry & Innovation
External Publication Reports
Staying Afloat: Why America Needs the Jones Act to Compete with China and What to Do Next
Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Industry & Innovation
The MOC
The Clear Case Today for Globalization Preserving National Security: Part 2
Asia & the Indo-Pacific, Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Industry & Innovation
The MOC
The Specter of the Continuing Resolution Will Haunt Navy Acquisition and Operations Beyond 2024
Acquisitions & Budget, Strategy & Doctrine
Maritime Nation
Breaking Down the Defense Budget
Acquisitions & Budget, Civil-Military, Force Design
The MOC
The Balearic-Strait-Canaries Axis and Spanish Maritime Strategy
Europe & Eurasia, MENA, Acquisitions & Budget, Civil-Military, Energy and Resource Security, Geopolitics, Hybrid Threats, International Law, Political Economy, Strategy & Doctrine
Maritime Nation
Special Episode: The Future of the Surface Navy
Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Industry & Innovation, Surface Warfare
The MOC
Part II: Huzzah! There is a New Frigate on the Horizon
Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Industry & Innovation, Surface Warfare
The MOC
U.S. Maritime Priorities for a New Era of Competition
Asia & the Indo-Pacific, Acquisitions & Budget, Civil-Military, Force Design, Geopolitics, Industry & Innovation, Political Economy, Strategy & Doctrine, Surface Warfare, Undersea Warfare
The MOC
Part I: Sundowning the Oliver Hazard Perry-Class Frigate
Europe & Eurasia, MENA, Acquisitions & Budget, Surface Warfare
The MOC
How does a 1980s Video Game inform Uncrewed Surface Warfare Systems?
Americas, Europe & Eurasia, Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Wargaming
Notable Reference
Sen. Kelly to propose Legislation to strengthen Commercial Shipping
Americas, Asia & the Indo-Pacific, Acquisitions & Budget, Geopolitics, Political Economy, Strategy & Doctrine
The MOC
The U.S. cannot afford a Boomer Gap (No, Seriously)
Asia & the Indo-Pacific, Acquisitions & Budget, Industry & Innovation, Undersea Warfare
Quoted in Publication
Uncharted waters: Navy navigating first-ever dismantling of nuclear-powered carrier
Americas, Acquisitions & Budget, Energy and Resource Security, Force Design, Industry & Innovation
The MOC
More Combat Logistics Force Ships? Yes Please!
Asia & the Indo-Pacific, Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design
The MOC
Littoral Warfare Requirements for Future Black Sea Operations
Europe & Eurasia, Acquisitions & Budget, Geopolitics, Industry & Innovation
External Article
U.S. Navy Needs to Build Back its Sea Mine Capability
Asia & the Indo-Pacific, Europe & Eurasia, MENA, Acquisitions & Budget, Industry & Innovation
The MOC
The Osprey COD Aircraft: Versatile Logistics for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps
Asia & the Indo-Pacific, Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Industry & Innovation
The MOC
“Zeitenwende” at Sea?: The German Navy’s Purchase of SeaRAMs and Bolstering Security in the Baltic Sea
Europe & Eurasia, Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Industry & Innovation, Surface Warfare
The MOC
Bolstering Deterrence in the Indo-Pacific through Long Range Fires
Asia & the Indo-Pacific, Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Industry & Innovation, Surface Warfare
External Article
Huge U.S. Naval Force off Israel comes with Costs
MENA, Acquisitions & Budget, Conflict Resolution & Peacebuilding, Force Design, Surface Warfare
The MOC
Unmanned Vessels as Sensors in U.S. Naval Operations
Asia & the Indo-Pacific, Acquisitions & Budget, AI & Cyber, Force Design, Industry & Innovation
The MOC
The Swedish Navy brings Capable Forces to NATO
Europe & Eurasia, Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Hybrid Threats, Industry & Innovation, Strategy & Doctrine, Surface Warfare, Undersea Warfare
The MOC
Transatlantic Security in Baltic: How Realistic is Poland’s Concept of protecting NATO’s Eastern Flank against Russian Aggression?
Europe & Eurasia, Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Strategy & Doctrine, Surface Warfare
The MOC
To succeed against China, Washington and Its Allies must be in the South China Sea
Asia & the Indo-Pacific, Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Geopolitics, Hybrid Threats, Industry & Innovation, Strategy & Doctrine, Surface Warfare
External Article
Legitimate Questions about the U.S. Navy’s Struggle to change
Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Surface Warfare
External Publication
The United States Navy needs An Operational Level of War Strategy to inform Fleet Design
Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Industry & Innovation, Strategy & Doctrine, Surface Warfare
The MOC
Roadblock to Strategy and Fleet Design: Platform-Centric Thinking
Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Strategy & Doctrine
Quoted in Publication
Navy, Marine Corps test warfighting concepts
Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Personnel, Wargaming
The MOC
Tending to a Distributed Maritime Operation: The Ongoing Need for More Navy Tenders
Asia & the Indo-Pacific, Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Undersea Warfare
The MOC
Achieving More with Less: The U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet Bets on Unmanned Vehicles and AI Systems to Bolster Maritime Domain Awareness
MENA, Acquisitions & Budget, AI & Cyber, Force Design, Geopolitics, Hybrid Threats, Industry & Innovation, Political Economy
The MOC
U.S. Air Technology in the Baltic can help Allies create a “Lake of NATO”
Europe & Eurasia, Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Industry & Innovation
The MOC
Lessons from the Anglo-German Arms Race for the United States Navy
Asia & the Indo-Pacific, Europe & Eurasia, Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Geopolitics, Industry & Innovation, Strategy & Doctrine
The MOC
Too Soon to Call: Betting against Warship Retirement
Asia & the Indo-Pacific, Europe & Eurasia, Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Strategy & Doctrine, Surface Warfare
The MOC
Finland could help the U.S. build a Fleet of Polar Cutters
Arctic, Europe & Eurasia, Acquisitions & Budget, Energy and Resource Security, Geopolitics, Hybrid Threats, Industry & Innovation, International Law, Political Economy
External Article
International Reactions to Maritime COIN Project
Acquisitions & Budget, Geopolitics, Hybrid Threats, Industry & Innovation, Personnel, Political Economy, Strategy & Doctrine, Surface Warfare, Undersea Warfare
The MOC
Undercurrents of Italy’s Indo-Pacific Agenda
Asia & the Indo-Pacific, Europe & Eurasia, Acquisitions & Budget, Geopolitics, Industry & Innovation, Political Economy
The MOC
Adapting to a New Strategic Environment: The Royal Australian Navy and Australia’s 2023 Strategic Defense Review
Asia & the Indo-Pacific, Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Strategy & Doctrine, Surface Warfare, Undersea Warfare
The MOC
World War II’s Coral Sea and Midway Battles say the Modern U.S. Navy needs more Tactical Aircraft
Asia & the Indo-Pacific, Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Industry & Innovation, Strategy & Doctrine
Maritime Nation
Building the Coast Guard of the Future
Africa, Americas, Arctic, Asia & the Indo-Pacific, Europe & Eurasia, MENA, Acquisitions & Budget, Civil-Military, Energy and Resource Security, Force Design, Geopolitics, Hybrid Threats, Personnel
The MOC
Military Sealift Command can “Rule the Waves”
Americas, Europe & Eurasia, Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Industry & Innovation, Surface Warfare
The MOC
To Prepare for War at Sea Over Taiwan, Look to the Land War in Ukraine
Asia & the Indo-Pacific, Europe & Eurasia, Acquisitions & Budget, Surface Warfare, Wargaming
The MOC
Washington Must Carefully Establish Standing Indo-Pacific Maritime Group
Asia & the Indo-Pacific, Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Hybrid Threats, Wargaming
The MOC
Running Ahead of the Rust: The Dangers of Extending Warship Service Lives
Americas, Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Industry & Innovation, Surface Warfare
Maritime Nation
AUKUS: Strength, Silence, Surprise
Asia & the Indo-Pacific, Europe & Eurasia, Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Strategy & Doctrine, Undersea Warfare
The MOC
One Solution to Poor Shipyard Accommodations for Sailors: Cruise Ships
Americas, Acquisitions & Budget
The MOC
Subs to the Aussies: Impact of the AUKUS Partnership
Asia & the Indo-Pacific, Acquisitions & Budget, Geopolitics, Undersea Warfare
The MOC
Reflecting on One Year of War: Is America the Arsenal of Democracy?
Europe & Eurasia, Acquisitions & Budget, Geopolitics, Industry & Innovation
The MOC
Don’t Fix the Frigate: FFG-62 class is Fine without SM-6 and Tomahawk
Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Surface Warfare
The MOC
What to Watch 2023: A Growing Navy, If You Can Keep It…
Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Industry & Innovation
Article
Navy Shipyard Optimization Must Have A Digital Backbone
Acquisitions & Budget, AI & Cyber, Force Design, Industry & Innovation
Article
There is no Panacea, Competition with China Occurs in Peace and War
Asia & the Indo-Pacific, Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Geopolitics, Strategy & Doctrine
The MOC
NAVPLAN 2022’s Budget Requirement: An Elusive Necessity?
Acquisitions & Budget, Strategy & Doctrine
The MOC
NAVPLAN 2022: Laying the Groundwork for the Future Force
Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Strategy & Doctrine
The MOC
A Lesson in Force Design on a Tight Budget from Jackie Fisher
Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design
External Article
The Maritime Counterinsurgency Project Begins
Acquisitions & Budget, AI & Cyber, Geopolitics, Hybrid Threats, Industry & Innovation, Political Economy, Strategy & Doctrine, Surface Warfare, Undersea Warfare
Article
The 30-Year Shipbuilding Program is Not Enough
Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Industry & Innovation
Article
Sea Services Reach Tipping Point in Maintaining Readiness While Recapitalizing Forces
Acquisitions & Budget, Force Design, Personnel
External Publication
Deterrence: Selected Articles from the Naval War College Review
Asia & the Indo-Pacific, Acquisitions & Budget, Civil-Military, Geopolitics, Industry & Innovation, Political Economy, Strategy & Doctrine, Surface Warfare