Hostilities in the Red Sea underscore a serious problem facing the U.S. Navy: it’s burning through missiles faster than it ...

To operate at that level MSC needs 5,500 personnel to provide enough people to allow merchant sailors one month off-duty for every four months at sea. This plan became less attractive to MSC sailors.

forced the Black Sea into what amounts to hiding in its home port of Novorossiysk, and made Crimea untenable as a military base for Russia. Those are not signs of a permanent war of attrition ...