Chief of Naval Operations

enough to be of any major strategic use until World War II. For this reason, the strategic and tactical impact of aviation is most visible through the scope of World War II. With the advent of aviation and its integration into the Navy came a shift in naval strategy and tactics; this presented much strategic merit as well as logistic complications.…

Pinkerton Academy in Derry, New Hampshire, and earned a spot in the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland in 1941. After he graduated, he served on the warship, Cogswell, towards the end of World War II. Then, Shepard studied…

America has always been a maritime nation. Our founders recognized the United States as one and knew the importance of having a maritime presence, so they wrote in our Constitution the requirement that Congress shall “maintain a Navy.” As a trading nation, the United States has always valued and defended the freedom to navigate the seas. One of the first missions of a young U.S. Navy was to protect the safe shipping of American commercial vessels through the Atlantic Ocean and the…

study and practice between naval policy, strategy and tactics. His theories created a foundation for modern operational art and operational warfare while analyzing contributing factors of politics, social and economic conditions while keeping maritime interests at the forefront of his beliefs. As classical naval theoretician, he shaped the service culture and military doctrine for a multiplicity of navies on a global scale through the examination of European and American naval history…

Anticipated Difficulties With the implementation of any new program, it is important to consider obstacles, barriers, and pitfalls that may be associated with its enactment. Most new programs and products enter a learning phase immediately after release, and changing the scope of leadership programs within the health care setting are no different. Furthermore, issues may emerge at any point along the development of the program resulting in undesired effects on personnel or the way care is…

Extended deployments, however, necessary are not sustainable. Extended deployments vary in length and leaders must understand the ripple effect they have because it will impinge on every aspect of their operation. Personnel, maintenance, and overall readiness designate the key areas impacted. Therefore, this essay will examine the problems that extended deployments cause, discuss the significance, and offer recommendations to solve the matter. Problem While the Navy is no stranger to…

Senior Enlisted Advisor at U.S. Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station Far East Detachment Diego Garcia from January 2015 to March 2016. Senior Chief Robinson consistently demonstrated leadership and initiative in the performance of her duties. Her ability to perform in an extremely isolated, arduous, and dynamic environment are directly reflected in the high level of success provided to Navy, Joint and Coalition forces conducting Overseas Contingency Operations in support of three…

Operation HUSKY, the Allied invasion of Sicily launched in July of 1943 was one of the largest joint operations of the Second World War. By mid-August, the Allies captured Messina, the campaign’s key strategic objective. A literal as well as a developmental stepping-stone between the Allies’ victory in North Africa and the invasion of Hitler’s Fortress Europe, HUSKY was an important Allied victory. However, it was an imperfect victory, diminished by the escape of over 100,000 Axis soldiers.…

The plan was codenamed Operation (OP) Pluto when Kennedy was updated on it on January 28th, just 8 days after his inauguration. (Simkin, Bay of Pigs) OP Pluto was the result of a CIA paper by the name of JMARC written in March of 1960 by the CIA’s Chief of Operations, Richard Bissell. It drew heavily on the covert tactics of a previous CIA policy paper called ‘PBSUCCESS’, the plan that led to…

with the United States Army Air force benefiting from acquiring Iwo Jima. The combination of the both these objectives would seem as beneficial to the Joint Chiefs of Staff as the Navy was attempting to outflank the Army and the Air Force was displaying the need for strategic bombing runs. The battle for Iwo Jima would go on to be known as Operation Detachment which resulted in the acquisitions of three small airstrips that would go on…