by NWCF | Feb 25, 2021 | News
Naval War College Professor James Holmes, PhD, was the guest lecturer at the seventh Newport Lecture Series of the 2020-2021 academic year, hosted by the Naval War College Foundation. Dr. Holmes’ lecture, “What Can the U.S. Military Learn from the Great...
by NWCF | Feb 16, 2021 | News
On this day, February 16, 1917, Rear Admiral William S. Sims became the fifteenth President of the U.S. Naval War College (PNWC). A graduate of the Naval War College’s two-year Long Course from 1911 to 1912, Sims went on to be an advocate of improved naval gunnery,...
by NWCF | Feb 9, 2021 | News
The first African-American to rise from the enlisted ranks to become a submarine commander, U.S. Naval War College (NWC) Associate Provost Dr. William F. Bundy passed away on Sunday, December 15, 2019 in Rhode Island. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Bundy enlisted in...
by NWCF | Feb 2, 2021 | News
The Naval War College Foundation (NWCF) is pleased to announce that funding from a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts will be used to develop a handbook that addresses the most vexing challenges of maritime governance. The handbook will be produced from a series of...
by NWCF | Feb 1, 2021 | Publications
The cover reproduces Admiral Porter’s Fleet Running the Rebel Blockade of the Mississippi at Vicksburg, April 16th 1863, a lithograph published by Currier & Ives, New York, in 1863. In “Theories of Naval Blockades and Their Application in the Twenty-First...
