Naval Statecraft and the Navy Needed The nation needs a strong maritime industry to convey trade, which today relies >99% on others’ ships. At the same time a strong navy is required to ensure those ships can come to our ports, defend Americans and secure our national interests.

BREAKING 🚨Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon is ripping the lid off voter fraud nationwide and the numbers are STAGGERING Thousands of non citizens caught on voter rolls North Carolina alone cleaned up over 100000 registrations 260000 DEAD voters already found 15 lawsuits filed and

🚨Oversight Committee confirmed the following in a new report: D.C. Chief Smith pressured staff to cook the books & manipulate crime data. Chief Smith removed officers for reporting accurate crime data. Chief Smith used fear to achieve her agenda. @FoxNews @BillMelugin_

13 sorties of PLA aircraft and 7 PLAN vessels operating around Taiwan were detected up until 6 a.m. (UTC+8) today. 9 out of 13 sorties crossed the median line and entered Taiwan’s northern and southwestern ADIZ. We have monitored the situation and responded.

China has deployed maritime structures—one integrated management platform, and two aquaculture cages—have been deployed inside the South Korea-China Provisional Measures Zone (PMZ) without prior consultation with the South Korean government. Satellite imagery analysis reveals

We are out of the dark!! US Merchant Marine 💪💪

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Look at that body language from everyone around him. Now go back and look at the body language of everyone around his predecessor. Night & Day.

RT @johnkonrad: I just had a two hour briefing from a retired Navy EOD diver who has security contracts to patrol a certain port. This abs…

Chinese carrier strike groups in the Philippine Sea a new normal… While this was happening a second Chinese carrier strike group operated in the South China Sea with a historically high winter level of naval forces at sea - 100 for several days. https://t.co/7cOTO1qLep

Had a great time with @SteveVBrock and @BrianKerg on @CIMSEC's Sea Control Podcast. Come for the in depth discussion of the Maritime Statecraft strategy... stay for the colorful explanation of the leverage enabled by @USTradeRep's port fees on PRC ships! https://t.co/PPNWCdf3eo

Lessons from the Reserve Officer Commissioning Program

Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna: "I've never been for a shutdown…" Maria Bartiromo: "Wait, let's be clear. You voted to keep the government shut down." https://t.co/r2nToOWTpY

Scratch one Kilo… Ukraine undersea drone successfully attacks a Russian Kilo-class sub in Novorossiysk - a Russian eastern Black Sea port

The Fed just admitted markets won’t buy $9 trillion of federal debt coming due. So the Fed will. Last time the Fed did this in the 1940’s it led to 20% inflation. When Germany did it in the 1930’s it led to hyperinflation.

The Rapid Capabilities office is where urgency meets execution. Rapid prototypes, disciplined scaling and real capabilities in the hands of warfighters—now, not years from now! This is how we maintain naval dominance because who controls the seas controls the future.

Scratch one Kilo… Ukraine undersea drone successfully attacks a Russian Kilo-class sub in Novorossiysk - a Russian eastern Black Sea port

Know their names - Chinese anti-ship missiles… you’ll be hearing more about them in coming months/years. https://t.co/zkpNvxTN4f

Via Kimo Fanell: China built eight 25,000-ton Type 071 amphibious landing ships in 14 years plus 45,000-ton Type 076 big-decks designed to take Taiwan. The US response? 24-ft drone boats with 1,000-lb charges. This isn’t about tech. It’s about national will and more “warfighter

Know their names - Chinese anti-ship missiles… you’ll be hearing more about them in coming months/years. https://t.co/zkpNvxTN4f

U.S. Seizes A Shadow Fleet Super Tanker off Venezuela Does the seizure of the tanker SKIPPER mark the beginning of a larger maritime campaign? @USWPColby @RickyBuria @geressy187 @SecWar https://t.co/vzc3CXb5gf