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Navy Information Warfare Needs More Resources—and Command at Sea

By Captain Tony Butera, U.S. Navy
January 2019 Proceedings Vol. 145/1/1,391

The Navy is adjusting to the return to great power competition but has not gone far enough culturally in shifting its priorities and budget to win the competition. In many ways, a mind-set that prioritizes hardware over software pervades. Twenty years ago, then-Captain James Stavridis warned that while the nation and its defense industry were preoccupied with the first revolution in military affairs, peer competitors would leapfrog over and “skim the cream” from our technological advances to achieve “regional information dominance.”1 From China contesting international norms at sea to Russia using information operations to help seize Ukrainian territory and vessels, this prediction has come to pass. Great power competition today involves a constant state of multi-domain warfare.

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Voices Before the Storm: Radio Intelligence and the Kamikaze Threat at Okinawa

Quoting Captain Holmes again how the course of the War was changed the nature of our work:

“The virtual destruction of the Japanese Navy and the drastic reduction in the numbers of marus brought about changes in radio intelligence.  It also forced the Japanese to suicide weapons of many varieties.  Most effective were kamikazes which, in April and May 1945, took off from Kyushu in mass flights to attack U.S. ships in the vicinity of Okinawa.  Kamikazes were the most serious threat the Navy faced during the war.”

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Intelligence Is Not Warfare!

By Captain Bray, Retired Intelligence Officer, December 2016 Proceedings Vol. 142/12/1,366

Summary:

Captain Bray argues that U.S. naval intelligence has been harmed by being subordinated to the Navy’s information warfare (IW) community. His central thesis is that intelligence is not warfare—it is a distinct, cognitive discipline that must remain operationally independent to preserve the integrity of intelligence assessments.

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Using Carrots as a Ruse

How a ruse to keep German pilots confused gave the Vitamin-A-rich vegetable too much credit.

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Silent Victory Beneath the Waves: Submarines, Radio Intelligence, and the Hidden War Against Japan During WWII

Clay Blair, Jr., who served as a Quartermasters, 2nd Class on submarines in WWII, wrote a 1,000 page book subtitled, The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan.  He titled his book, SILENT VICTORY, because the skippers and crews like their comrades in radio intelligence were not permitted to discuss their exploits until after the War was over.  In summary:

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 Naming of Corry Station Barracks Building 1094, the “Matthew James O’Bryant Hall”

What does it take to name a building onboard Corry Station?

In the U.S. Navy, naming a building requires approval from the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), in accordance with OPNAV Instruction 5030.12H. In 2022, a request was submitted to name a new barracks “Matthew James O’Bryant Hall.”

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