Leading maritime experts from the United States and Japan will discuss issues regarding the waters of the Asia Pacific.

The October 1 operational launch of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), on the eve of a new American presidential administration, provides an unprecedented opportunity to reshape U.S. strategy toward Africa. Significant attention has been devoted to the structure and functions of AFRICOM--and to its strategic communications challenges. Less thought, however, has...

No branch of the Armed Forces better epitomizes both the promise and the peril of American superpower than the United States Navy. Unrivaled in its ability to project conventional military strength across the world's oceans, the Pentagon's fleet of ships and submarines is increasingly challenged by a range of new...

The George W. Bush administration is urging the U.S. Senate to consent this summer to the Convention on the Law of the Sea, a complex and sprawling treaty that governs shipping, navigation, mining, fishing, and other ocean activities. Deputy secretary of state John Negroponte and deputy defense secretary Gordon England...

The October 1 operational launch of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), on the eve of a new American presidential administration, provides an unprecedented opportunity to reshape U.S. strategy toward Africa. Significant attention has been devoted to the structure and functions of AFRICOM—and to its strategic communications challenges. Less thought, however, has...

An invitation to the world that works.

Washington has to consider the effect of China's new capabilities on its allies and friends in maritime Asia.

The two greatest naval forces ever assembled--280 ships in the Turkish Armada, some 212 on the Christian side--came into each other's sight on a brilliant morning on October 7.