TRAVERSE CITY — Northwestern Michigan College is being recognized as a key player in the state’s first-ever maritime strategy, putting Traverse City at the center of future jobs and innovation.

An all-encompassing U.S. maritime strategy must include all the armed forces—not just the navy, coast guard and marines. So does America have a maritime strategy? It’s only fair to ask. A few years ...

Three years ago, I published an essay on the challenge of crafting a good strategy in the Naval Institute Proceedings. This short research paper was my contribution to an effort to develop an update ...

The Unted States is an island nation, and its way of life depends on commerce. Since the 18th century, America has relied upon its Navy deter our adversaries from attacking our shores, and if ...

On Thursday the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard —which have taken to calling themselves the Naval Service, singular—released a “Triservice Maritime Strategy” entitled Advantage at Sea. Let’s ...

The term “maritime strategy” means different things to different people, even in the Anglophone world. Sir Julian Corbett famously defined it as comprising “the principles which govern war in which ...

Editor’s Note: Bryan McGrath was the primary author of the 2007 maritime strategy that preceded this new work. Bryan Clark previously served as a close adviser to the Chief of Naval Operations, ...

The 2026 Sea Power for Africa Symposium opened in Lagos on Tuesday with a strong call for African nations to leverage emerging technologies, strengthen collaboration, and deepen maritime partnerships ...

The Trump administration has released America’s first new joint maritime strategy encompassing the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard since 2015. At risk of being lost in the Trump administration ...