Robert Purssell

The decommissioning of cruisers and destroyers built in the 20th century, coupled with reduced shipyard build capacity, is shrinking the Navy’s number...

In contrast to aircraft and subsonic missiles, the Navy’s hypersonic Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) missile reaches a 2,200 nautical mile distant...

The media continually reports that the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) will soon launch a massive assault into Gaza with the dual objectives of rescuing...

Since November 2022, the Russo-Ukraine war has become stalemated. Now stuck, having frittered away their initial invasion force, the Russians have...

In the last weeks of August 2022, the Russia-Ukraine War has become an asymmetric stalemate. Russian artillery keeps the Ukrainians at bay, while the...

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F. Kennedy, on October 22, 1962, in a nationwide-televised speech, said, “It shall be the policy of...

The Marine Corps Littoral Operations in a Contested Environment concept document states that littoral combat will take place in five dimensions:...

In its more than two-century history, the United States Navy has frequently taken ships designed and built for one purpose and rebuilt and rearmed...