– New York Times – Since a low-key Christmas Eve announcement of a French sale of assault ships to Russia, high-level government deal makers have boasted about the multimillion-euro deal like it was a soccer game triumph…But critics – particularly among Russia’s neighbors including Georgia, Estonia and Lithuania – are raising alarms that France may have pioneered the way for other Western countries to sell Russia whatever they have to offer, from high-technology military equipment to rights for oil pipelines.
Monthly Archives: December 2010
Russian Navy – Russia to buy two warships in deal with France
– Washington Post – After a long hesitation and arduous negotiations, Russia has decided to buy at least two of France’s advanced Mistral-class amphibious warships in an unprecedented military deal between Moscow and the West.
US Navy – Navy Awards Two Contracts to Build New Combat Ships
– New York Times – The Navy on Wednesday awarded two companies contracts that could be worth a total of more than $7 billion to build 20 of its new littoral combat ships, splitting the purchase to obtain the vessels more quickly.
Iranian Navy – Iran meets with US Navy over piracy
– Associated Press – A common fight against piracy brought U.S. and Iranian navy commanders together in a meeting with other participants earlier this month.
Chinese Navy – U.S. commander says China aims to be a 'global military' power
– Asahi Shimbun – Robert Willard, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, said he believes that China aspires to become a “global military (power)” by extending its influence beyond its regional waters.
Chinese Navy – China Deploys World’s First Long-Range, Land-Based ‘Carrier Killer’: DF-21D Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile (ASBM) Reaches “Initial Operational Capability” (IOC)
– China Sign Post – As we enter the Year of the Hare, China has achieved a major military milestone far faster than many foreign observers thought possible. In a December 2010 interview with veteran national security journalist Yoichi Kato of the Asahi Shimbun, Admiral Robert F. Willard, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command, offered significant new revelations.
Chinese Navy – China speeds plans to launch aircraft carrier
– Reuters – China may be ready to launch its first aircraft carrier in 2011, Chinese military and political sources said on Thursday, a year ahead of U.S. military analysts’ expectations.
Chinese Navy – China's aircraft carrier ambitions
– Reuters – Here are some facts about China’s carrier ambitions.
US Navy – What Lies Beneath
– Los Angeles Times Magazine – An insider’s tale of a search for Soviet bombs in the Pacific can finally be told.
Ground Warfare – The Gun
– Esquire – It is perhaps the most potent question to echo from the cold war: Who lost Vietnam? Well, there were certainly many factors, but an important new book forces us to consider this: For the first time in human history, a poorly trained peasant army humbled a great power with the gun its fighters carried in their hands. This is the story of that gun, and of the scandalous way that Washington responded to it. An exclusive adaptation from CJ Chiver’s new book on the AK-47.
US Marines – Hitting the Beach in the 21st Century
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – As adversaries and weapons grow more advanced, amphibious doctrine must evolve, and the Navy—Marine Corps team must keep the blade sharpened for sea-to-shore capabilities.
Air Warfare – Airpower Over Water
– Air Force – The mission spent the 1990s adrift, but aircraft are again seen as a prime way to track and target threats at sea.
US Marines – Versatility in the Age of Uncertainty
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – With its ability to work across the seams of other services’ domains and its value in the all-important littoral sphere, the Marine Corps remains as relevant as ever in the 21st century.
Ground Warfare – From Russia With Blood
– Foreign Policy – C.J. Chivers talks with Foreign Policy about the Kalashnikov, the world’s real weapon of mass destruction.
US Navy – Mind the Gap
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – Keeping the Joint Strike Fighter Program on track is essential to maintaining U.S. military primacy and preventing an aircraft inventory shortfall.
Chinese Navy – Keeping the Pacific Pacific
– Foreign Affairs – A look at the looming U.S.-Chinese naval rivalry.
US Navy – U.S.S Prius
– New York Times – Tom Friedman on the US Navy’s green initiatives.
US Navy – The Forgotten Threat
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – It is likely only a matter of time before terrorists attempt maritime attacks in the United States using small vessels. Why isn’t something being done about it? Whatever happened to the small-boat threat?
Chinese Navy – China’s naval ambitions
– Armed Forces Journal – 10 myths America holds about China.
US Navy – 'Tipping' the Future Fleet
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – The course ahead for the Navy of the mid-21st century is still uncharted. The strategic alternative it chooses now will chart that course, for better or worse.
US Navy – US and Japanese warships in joint exercises
– BBC – Warships from America and Japan have just completed their biggest ever joint exercises, as tensions remain high in East Asia.
Russian Navy – Second Borei SSBN Launched
– Defense Technology International – The Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk has launched the second Borei-class (Project 955) SSBN, Alexander Nevsky.
Royal Navy – Meet Britain's New Flagship
– Defense Technology International – With HMS Ark Royal being put out to pasture, the U.K. names the HMS Albion its new flagship.
Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force – Japan Plans Military Shift to Focus More on China
– New York Times – In what would be a sweeping overhaul of its cold war-era defense strategy, Japan is about to release new military guidelines that would reduce its heavy armored and artillery forces pointed north toward Russia in favor of creating more mobile units that could respond to China’s growing presence near its southernmost islands.
Geopolitics / Tajikistan – Tajikistan: The Next Jihadi Stronghold?
– New York Review of Books – Ahmed Rashid writes on the current situation in Tajikistan.
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