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Mackenzie Eaglen

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Sep 8, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · by Mackenzie Eaglen, Brady Africk

    America’s Sailors Are Overworked — We Can Fix That (opens the original)

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    Deployed American aircraft carriers are home to some 5,000 souls onboard and are often described as “floating cities.” But they’re more densely populated than any city on Earth. And in recent years, Washington has asked our sailors and Marines to serve increasingly long and intense deployments to the Middle East and in the Pacific aboard these carriers and the ships that comprise their strike groups. These deployments are consistently breaking records, the kind of which no crew wants to be the r

  2. Article · Aug 4, 2026 · by Mackenzie Eaglen, Benjamin Jensen, Henry H. Carroll, et al.

    Flipping the Script: How to Hold China’s New Carriers at Risk (opens the original)

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    China’s expanding aircraft carrier fleet creates a strategic vulnerability that the United States and its allies can exploit. While debate has long focused on the threat posed by China’s anti-access/area-denial network to U.S. carriers, Chinese carriers are also large, visible, and difficult-to-replace platforms that depend on vulnerable sensor, communications, logistics, and escort networks. The United States can therefore employ a cost-imposition strategy designed to make routine Chinese carri

  3. Article · Jul 27, 2026 · by Mackenzie Eaglen, Nicholas Carl

    The US Navy Is Officially Stretched Beyond Its Limits (opens the original)

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    The revival of hostilities with Iran has put America’s diminished and aging fleet into the spotlight. Today, there are over 20 US Navy ships patrolling the waters of the Middle East. This armada is enforcing a naval blockade of Iranian ports and providing escorts for commercial vessels after the abandonment of a ceasefire following Operation Epic Fury. The massive concentration of maritime power, one of the largest in two decades, includes strategic assets such as two carrier strike groups and t

  4. Article · Jul 15, 2026 · by Mackenzie Eaglen

    How Tariffs Are Slowing the US Navy’s Shipbuilding Surge (opens the original)

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    The United States has not opened a new major public shipyard since 1908, when Congress authorized the construction of the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii. While some public yards built ships in centuries past, today all four government yards maintain the Navy’s most prestigious nuclear-powered ships and submarines. At a recent Washington Times event, the head of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, said the Trump administration is “pushing hard for an additional public ship

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