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The United States Naval Institute (USNI), based at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, is a private, non-profit, professional military association that seeks to offer independent, nonpartisan forums for debate of national defense issues. Established in 1873, it claims 65,000 members, mostly active and retired members of the United States Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard.
The Institute dates from 9 October 1873, when fifteen naval officers gathered at the Academy's Department of Physics and Chemistry building in Annapolis, Maryland, to discuss military history and strategy.
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The United States Naval Institute (USNI), based at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, is a private, non-profit, professional military association that seeks to offer independent, nonpartisan forums for debate of national defense issues. Established in 1873, it claims 65,000 members, mostly active and retired members of the United States Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard.
The Institute dates from 9 October 1873, when fifteen naval officers gathered at the Academy's Department of Physics and Chemistry building in Annapolis, Maryland, to discuss military history and strategy. A 1936 Act of Congress gave permission to locate its headquarters on The Yard, but the organization has no official or funding ties to the Academy or the U.S. Navy.
The Institute publishes magazines and books and runs several annual conferences on security matters in Washington, D.C., San Diego, California, Norfolk, Virginia and elsewhere in the United States.
The Institute describes its mission as "to provide an open forum for the exchange of ideas, to disseminate and advance the knowledge of sea power, and to preserve our naval and maritime heritage." It supports the professional development of its members on active duty by providing with articles, books, and digital content about military career challenges.
The Institute maintains one of the world’s largest private collections of military photographs, containing more than 450,000 images of people, ships and aircraft from all branches of the armed forces. The photographs date from the American Civil War to the present.
In 1999, the organization dedicated its current headquarters, Beach Hall, named to honor the contributions of Edward L. Beach, Jr. and his father and namesake, Edward L. Beach, Sr., who served as the Institute's secretary-treasurer.
Publications and products
The monthly magazine Proceedings is the Institute’s flagship publication. First published in 1874, it is the third-oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. It has published 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 leader of the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. The magazine also publishes articles by men and women serving in the military rank-and-file.
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 offers a twice-yearly catalog of books 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. Prominent among the Naval Institute Press’s catalog of 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 2007, USNI produced Americans At War, a series of video vignettes in which U. S. combat veterans of conflicts dating to World War I recalled their combat duty. Former President George H. W. Bush, Senators Bob Dole, Daniel Inouye, and Bob Kerry were among the men and women, most of them lesser-known, who spoke about how service in environments of vicious fighting had changed their lives. The series was broadcast on many Public Broadcasting Service television stations nationwide.
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