THE COMING REVOLUTION IN U.S. NAVAL STRATEGY

James Holmes

October 27, 2015

The Chief of Naval Operations, John Richardson, winged his way to Newport around the beginning of the month to discuss maritime strategy with the Naval War College (NWC) teaching and research faculty and generally hobnob with students, staff and faculty. Which is fitting: the Navy’s top uniformed officer should tarry at its intellectual seat from time to time—gleaning such strategic and operational insight as we ivory-tower dwellers alongside the Narragansett Bay can supply.

ANGRY CHINA FOLLOWED U.S.WARSHIP NEAR ARTIFICIAL ISLAND IN DISPUTED SEA

The US Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen sails in the Pacific Ocean in a November 2009 photo provided by the U.S. Navy. The U.S. Navy sent a guided-missile destroyer within 12 nautical miles of artificial islands built by China in the South China Sea on October 27, a U.S. defense official said, in a challenge to China's territorial claims in the area.

The U.S. Navy sent a guided-missile destroyer close to China's man-made islands in the disputed South China Sea on Tuesday, drawing an angry rebuke from Beijing, which said it warned and followed the American vessel.

ARE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHERS TOO INFLUENCED BY CORPORATIONS ?

We like to think academic researchers are motivated purely by the desire to make progress in the fields of science and medicine. But a new report published Tuesday finds that as many as 1 in 10 board positions at for-profit health care companies are held by researchers affiliated with a nonprofit or academic institution. While there aren’t any national guidelines set up to prevent these relationships, researchers and other experts say the overlap amounts to a huge conflict of interest and has the potential to influence academic work.