U.S. Naval Institute

Day-in and day-out, for over 148 years, the Naval Institute has fostered challenging debate and delivered the world’s most vigorous independent forum on naval, defense, and national security issues. Proceedings is widely read with a well-earned reputation for candor and independence. The Proceedings regularly feature articles written by young thought leaders in the Sea Services, many of whom will go on to be Chiefs of Naval Operations, Marine Corps and Coast Guard Commandants, Combatant Commanders, Systems Commanders, Secretaries of the Navy, Deputy Secretaries of Defense, as well as international chiefs of naval service. For example, Admiral James Stavridis, former Supreme Allied Commander, first wrote for Proceedings as an ensign. Fleet Admiral Ernest King won the General Prize Essay Contest as a lieutenant in 1909. Fleet Master Chief Paul Kingsbury won prizes in two essay contests this year. Admiral James (Sandy) Winnefeld, former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, first published as a midshipman and won the General Prize Essay Contest as a Lieutenant Commander.Military readers consistently rank Proceedings as a “must read” and as the “most credible,” “most relevant,” and “most important” among all military journals. For this reason, Institute media command great respect. Virtually every major news organization has quoted or linked to the U.S. Naval Institute as an authoritative source, doing so more than 500,000 times in 2019 alone. With the launch of its daily news site, USNI News, the Institute has expanded its reach, achieving more than two million page views per month during 2020. It has become a source of sources for the media, domestic and international. The Institute now has 10,000 midshipmen and cadets as members.The Naval Institute is held in high esteem by U.S. and foreign military and government leaders. It is able to speak with authority across all the military services. And, it reaches across all naval warfare specialties — from submarines to surface warfare to aviation, from the Navy to the Marine Corps and Coast Guard—and helps leaders understand what’s at stake in the critical program and operational tradeoffs we face today.