The Trump administration has yet to clarify its vision for the carrier fleet. In 2017, the president declared the USS Gerald R Ford to be a “100,000-tonne message to the world” and that “American ...

Donald Trump has anchored his security initiatives in the Western Hemisphere and Middle East. Asia remains a far more valuable sphere of influence.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Close to 200 years after first being used to assert geopolitical dominance, gunboat ...

President Trump has unveiled plans to construct two new battleships, each costing between $10 billion and $15 billion. It’s a ...

For the third time since returning to office, President Trump is seeking a nuclear deal with Iran. While U.S. officials say the renewed effort is sincere, Trump has veered away from diplomacy and into ...

Over the summer, the United States deployed warships to the Caribbean – ostensibly to menace drug traffickers but also as a none-too-subtle warning to Venezuela. Earlier in the year, a U.S. Navy ...