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Publications and Products

The monthly magazine Proceedings is the Institute’s flagship publication. Published since 1874, it is the third-oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. It has carried articles by Secretaries of Defense Caspar Weinberger, Dick Cheney, and William Perry; journalists Bob Woodward, Ben Bradlee, Evan Thomas, David Hartman, and Thomas Ricks; every Secretary of the Navy, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and top leaders of the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. The magazine also publishes articles of interest to its membership and in advancement of its mission. Roughly a third are written by active-duty personnel, a third by retired military, and a third by civilians.

The USNI bimonthly Naval History magazine explores the role of sea power in U.S. history. Contributors have included historians David McCullough and James M. McPherson; former sailors, Marines and Coast Guardsmen such as Ernest Borgnine, Gene Hackman, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; newsman Walter Cronkite, who covered the Invasion of Normandy in 1944 for United Press; and NBC television anchor Tom Brokaw.

USNI’s "Naval Institute Press" imprint publishes several dozen books each year. Its twice-yearly catalog includes works on history, biography, professional military education, and occasional works of popular fiction, including Tom Clancy's first novel, The Hunt for Red October; and Stephen Coonts’ Flight of the Intruder. Among the professional development titles are The Bluejacket's Manual, Naval Shiphandling, The Marine Officer’s Guide, and The Coast Guardsman’s Manual.

The Institute’s Web site includes reader forums and the Get the Gouge site aimed at younger readers. In December 2008, the Naval Institute launched a blog whose writers include Navy Admiral James G. Stavridis and Admiral Thad Allen, the 23rd Commandant of the Coast Guard.

In 2007, USNI produced Americans At War, a series of video interviews with U.S. combat veterans of conflicts dating to World War I. Former President George H. W. Bush, Senators Bob Dole, Daniel Inouye, Bob Kerry, and other men and women described how combat changed their lives. The series was broadcast on Public Broadcasting Service television stations nationwide.