Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy's undersea dominance is threatened by a shrinking force structure and an overstretched industrial base. While the Virginia-class Block V remains a formidable ...

The USS District of Columbia, the first Columbia-class vessel, was originally slated for completion in 2027—but that timeline was pushed back one year following construction delays. Five years ago, ...

After the New START expired on February 5, many observers (myself included) warned that the arms control era has come to an end and that the world is now entering a new period of strategic uncertainty ...

Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy’s Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines are designed to replace the aging Ohio-class and sustain America’s most survivable nuclear deterrent for decades.

John Maynard Keynes once wrote, “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones”: an apt depiction of the current discourse and debate of what the world will look like ...

A model of a 09IIIB submarine posted to Chinese social media. It does not appear to be an official model, but much of it correlates with other indicators and may be grossly representative of the real ...

Artist’s rendering of the Columbia-class SSBN submarine. US Navy image SAN DIEGO — The Navy and shipbuilders working on the first Columbia-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine are striving to ...

The Naval Ordnance Test Unit in the United States has broken ground to pave the way for the next-generation submarine-launched ballistic missile system. The Engineering Test Facility, or ETF, will ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to make classes smaller across the largest U.S. school system. Like other parts of his agenda, it’s a costly task. By Troy Closson Chris Phillips’s son was struggling to ...

When Meredith Howard asks her incoming middle schoolers whether they had classroom jobs in elementary school—tasks like line leader or plant waterer—very few raise their hands. “Mostly, for the few ...