Matthew Swartz, the newly appointed Executive Director for Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle, brings a distinguished and comprehensive background in information warfare and cyber operations. His career reflects decades of leadership across the Navy’s most technologically demanding missions, including strategic planning, operational integration, and the development of advanced cyber capabilities. Swartz’s deep expertise positions him as a key advisor to the CNO, ensuring the Navy continues to strengthen its information dominance, enhance cyber readiness, and maintain decision advantage in an increasingly complex and contested maritime environment.
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China is deploying a large number of naval and coast guard vessels across East Asian waters, at one point more than 100, in the largest maritime show of force to date, according to four sources and intelligence reports reviewed by Reuters.
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The Navy is looking to use virtual game engines and interactive team training for maintenance, a service official said Dec. 2.
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A diplomatic row with Japan over Taiwan has China turning to Britain and France for support, appealing to their shared history as wartime allies.
China’s diplomatic full-court press against Japan over its support for Taiwan has targeted President Trump, the United Nations and, now, two of Tokyo’s closest European partners.
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The internet is carried by around 500 fiber-optic undersea cables that are vulnerable to damage from natural disasters and man-made threats.
National actors, such as Russia, China, and the US, have the ability to attack the cables, which could cause massive disruptions to the global internet and weaken transportation grids.
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The mutiny aboard a Soviet warship in November 1975 led to a chase across the Baltic Sea, involving everything the Soviets had available.
Naval mutinies have long captured the public imagination, but, for the most part, open rebellions on the high seas are consigned to the Age of Exploration, in centuries past. One notable exception occurred in the Soviet Navy 50 years ago this month and, based on available evidence, almost led to the use of nuclear weapons. The mutiny aboard the frigate Storozhevoy is all the more remarkable for the fact that the Kremlin attempted to cover up its existence, with details only emerging in public a decade after its bloody end.
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