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		<title>The Navy’s mission is now to establish sea control where possible and sea denial where required</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 15:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The era of the Transoceanic Navy, focused on power projection from uncontested seas, is over, Commander Jeff Vandenengel argues, and the era of the Panoceanic Navy, focused on sea control and sea denial, has begun: In the Continental Phase, from the nation’s founding until the 1890s, the United States fought for North American dominance. Because [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>In New York social circles, he was known as the “Jewish James Bond”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Last Spy looks at 102-year-old CIA spymaster Peter Sichel, who passed away last year: In New York social circles, he was known as the “Jewish James Bond”: a refugee from Nazi Germany whose gratitude to his American hosts was such that he volunteered to join the US army and became the CIA’s first station [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Most aircraft losses happen not in the air but on the ground</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wargame after wargame exploring a Taiwan scenario has reached the same conclusion: Most aircraft losses happen not in the air but on the ground. Airbases across the Western Pacific sit within range of PLA missiles. Active air and missile defenses at forward bases cannot reliably defeat salvos at the scales China can generate, and passive [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Pacific War</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/04/the-great-pacific-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Standing apart from fiction, with its checkered history, Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations explains, are forecasts, which omit the conversations and streams of consciousness of a novel’s cast of characters: The best is Hector C. Bywater’s The Great Pacific War: A History of the American-Japanese Campaign of 1931–1933. Bywater was a journalist and military commentator [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Some have also shown behaviors suggesting attempts to avoid detection</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNN and environmental news outlet Mongabay tracked eight Chinese research vessels that have undertaken deep-sea mining exploratory missions over the past five years: During that period, the ships spent only around 6% of their total open water time in areas reserved for exploration by Chinese companies, according to an analysis of data from MarineTraffic, a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiction writers who have attempted to predict future wars and their consequences have a checkered history</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fiction writers who have attempted to predict future wars and their consequences, Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations notes, have a checkered history: Some have amounted to blatant propaganda. A famous example was Erskine Childers’ The Riddle of the Sands. Published in England in 1903, it was republished by the Naval Institute Press in 1991 and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The evolution of firepower warrants deep reflection</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The evolution of firepower warrants deep reflection, Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations explains: The development of the torpedo at the beginning of the twentieth century enabled an inferior force to defeat a superior one because the new weapons delivered a highly effective pulse of firepower that could be delivered from many small torpedo boats or [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>There is no compelling rationale for sending large, expensive, and highly capable warships into contested coastal waters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations looks at modern tactics and operations: If Trident submarines could be targeted, they would go down with many warheads—more than the number of nuclear weapons that would be expended to sink them. These huge submarines seem to have been designed on a cost-effective basis—that is, economies of scale drove the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Soldiers are more cautious when excessive boldness results in death rather than embarrassment</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/04/soldiers-are-more-cautious-when-excessive-boldness-results-in-death-rather-than-embarrassment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of our most realistic ways to teach ground tactics, Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations notes, is on instrumented ranges that substitute lasers for deadly bullets and shells: English tactical analyst David Rowland, however, discovered the troubling fact that in infantry battles the difference between casualty rates inflicted in actual combat and those estimated on [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Former member of US Army&#8217;s elite Delta Force unit arrested for leaking secrets to reporter</title>
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		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/04/former-member-of-us-armys-elite-delta-force-unit-arrested-for-leaking-secrets-to-reporter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems a stretch to call her “a former member of the US Army&#8217;s elite Delta Force,” but she has been arrested for leaking classified secrets: Courtney Williams, 40, was arrested Wednesday in connection with her alleged transmission of classified national defense information to individuals not authorized to receive it, including a journalist. While the affidavit [&#8230;]]]></description>
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