AEI/Heritage Project for the Common Defense Weekly Read Board

Navy:

"Top Stories 2014: U.S. Navy Acquisition," by Sam LaGrone (USNI News, 12/29/14)

"Big Year for Ship Retirements," by Jeanette Steele (San Diego Union-Tribune, 12/29/14)

"The Philippine Navy's Submarine Quest," by Koh Swee Lean Collin (The Diplomat, 12/31/14)

"Taiwan Navy Accepts New Catamaran," by Wendell Minnick (Defense News, 12/31/14)

"Amid Criticism, U.S. Navy Confident in New Arresting Gear System for Next Carrier," by Chris Cavas (Defense News, 01/03/14)

"Navy Safety Boss Grapples with '14 Spike in Aviation Mishaps," by Lance Bacon (Navy Times, 01/04/14)

USMC:

1.     U.S. Marine Corps Receives First Carrier Variant F-35C

2.     V-22 to Get a Tanker Option

3.     Family of Murdered Marine Suing Military Over Alleged Cover-Up

4.     New Marine crisis response force training Iraqis to fight Islamic State

5.     Semper Fi: Five Features That Will Keep The U.S. Marine Corps Busy In 2015 And Beyond

6.     Federal judge orders Marine Corps to answer charges it discredited whistleblower

7.     Marine-Nigerian exercises unaffected by training halt

8.     Marine Corps Looks to the Past for Future Connectors