James Holmes

Oct 31, 2024 | usni.org | Pete Pagano |Indian Navy |James Holmes

“This is the TAO, launch the Alert-60, AEW, side 603!” It is 0300 local time in the southern Red Sea. We have 60 minutes to get airborne. Awakened from a dead sleep by the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower’s (CVN 69’s)tactical action officer (TAO), we begin our well-briefed and by now well-practiced groundwork to launch our E-2C Hawkeye into the night. With only an hour to prepare, the crew splits up to accomplish the myriad tasks required to catapult the aircraft off a floating airfield to meet the enemy.

Jul 31, 2024 | usni.org | Chris O’Connor |James Holmes

The United States needs a plan to use industries not currently contemplated to reconstitute the fleet after a potential future conflict and provide combat capability to allies and partners. To that end, national security planners should look at how the United States resourced every state in the union to become the “arsenal of democracy” during World War II.

Jun 30, 2024 | usni.org | James Holmes

1. Thomas G. Pledger, “The Role of Drones in Future Terrorist Attacks,” Association of the United States Army, 3 March 2021. 2. Austin C. Doctor, “The Militant Drone Threat Is No Longer New. Why Does It Still Feel Novel?” Modern War Institute, 24 February 2022. 3. Gen Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., USMC, and Gerald Feierstein, remarks at the Middle East Institute, U.S. Central Command, 8 February 2021. 4. McKenzie and Feierstein, remarks. 5.

Feb 14, 2024 | usni.org | James Holmes

James Holmes James R. Holmes is the inaugural holder of the J. C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and previously served on the faculty of the University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs. A former U.S. Navy surface warfare officer, he earned a PhD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

Jan 31, 2024 | usni.org | James Holmes |Greg Lewis

1. Publicly, the U.S. Marine Corps is more closely associated with their expeditionary advanced base operations documents than Advantage at Sea. Since the U.S. Coast Guard has many more functions than armed national security, Advantage at Sea cannot be said to be the overall strategy for the service. 2. Among U.S. think tanks, only the Brookings Institution and Heritage Foundation published any analysis. 3. This argument peaked in the late 1990s. However, the effects remain evident in joint doctrine.