Happy New Year! Well, let’s hope 2021 will be happier and healthier than 2020. The start of vaccinations against COVID-19 certainly gives reason for hope. We begin this year with our annual focus on the surface navy, timed to coincide with the Surface Navy Association’s annual symposium (11–14 January). We are proud to offer free open access to the January and February issues of
Proceedings, plus our entire digital archive and member-level discounts on books, to SNA members for the next two months.
Our surface navy coverage features a number of powerful articles this month. In “Unleash Enlisted Sailors as WTIs , Navy Lieutenant Kyle Cregge makes the case for training enlisted surface warfare specialists as weapons tactics instructors to increase the combat effectiveness of the surface fleet. Retired Marine Colonel and National Defense University distinguished research fellow T. X. Hammes advances the “missile merchants” argument in “The Navy Needs More Firepower”