Marines refuel a CH-53E heavy-lift helicopter at a forward arming and refueling point established at the Oak Grove Outlying Field, N.C., on Aug. 11, 2023, during Large Scale Exercise. (Megan ...

The Honorable Thomas Modly, acting Secretary of the Navy, takes a selfie with USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN 78) newly selected petty officers during an all-hands call in the hangar bay. Navy photo.

At the Surface Navy Association's annual symposium near the nation's capital this week, one phrase is dominating discussions of strategy: distributed lethality. Distributed lethality is a plan to ...

The vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean presents both immense opportunity and extraordinary challenges for naval forces operating thousands of miles from home. As great power competition intensifies and ...

The U.S. Navy’s surface force has been working hard over the past year to bring its idea of “distributed lethality” to fruition. Jim Holmes wrote about it here on WOTR last year at this time, and his ...