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The author offers insights on the May 2017 white paper "The Future Navy," issued by U.S. Navy (USN) Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) John Richardson. Topics discussed include the sense of urgency demonstrated by Richardson with regard to military technology development and deployment, the increase in maritime traffic which may be attributed to international trade, and the national security capabilities of the USN.

The author offers insights on the 2017 white paper "The Future Navy," issued by U.S. Navy (USN) Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) John Richardson. Topics discussed include the way the document provided outlook for the USN fleet architecture, acknowledgment of maritime challenges associated with the growing power of China and Russia, and the necessity of USN expansion to address national security issues and competition with other countries.

The article presents information on the author's views on a paper published in a previous issue of the journal. The U.S. is very casual in the selection of words, especially in matters of geopolitics, international relations and foreign policies. If stability is a success measure, then the U.S. shall surely never succeed in Iraq or Afghanistan, nor shall they succeed in the experiment they call the United States of America. Security is the precise word to use. In fact, one of the primary reasons political and military policy makers have such a difficult time with reconstruction operations is a mistaken or misguided belief that stability is security.

In this article the author comments on a paper by A. Wells that was published in the March 2005 issue of the journal Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute. According to the author Wells continues to perpetrate myths related to the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty 38 years ago. The Liberty had no Hebrew linguists on board, and whatever Hebrew language intercepts Liberty might have collected were not reviewed by the National Security Agency until days later. He remarks that Wells finds of particular interest interviews of Secretary of State Dean Rusk and his key advisor, Helmut Sonnenfeldt.