– US Naval Institute Proceedings – Calls for the big-deck carrier’s phase-out are wrongheaded—both fiscally and strategically.
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Geopolitics / South China Sea – Three Disputes and Three Objectives – China and the South China Sea
– US Naval War College Review – An analysis of the geopolitical issues surrounding the South China Sea.
US Navy – Is Naval Aviation Culture Dead?
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – The swaggering-flyer mystique forged over the past century has been stymied in recent years by political correctness.
US Marines – Sea-Basing: Concepts, Issues, and Recommendations
– US Naval War College Review – As a grand concept, Sea Basing appears becalmed, if still visible out on the horizon. However, as a practical reality, U.S. forces engage in sea basing today-and every day. The U.S. Marine Corps-along with a sometimes supportive, sometimes reluctant U.S. Navy-is projected to continue to make incremental improvements.
US Marines – Away All . . . Hovercraft!
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – Forget the EFV. Retrofitted off-the-shelf vessels offer a cost-efficient means to align Marine Corps capabilities with national-security needs.
US Navy – The Future of Aircraft Carriers
– US Naval War College Review – In an attempt to improve the quality of the coming debates, this article will examine the prospects for future utility of the aircraft carrier, including that of the embarked air wing, from a different angle. Instead of making a holistic judgment on the future utility of aircraft carriers, it will focus on the ways they have been, are, or could be used. Within the bounds of security classification, it will also attempt to sort out the risk factors that attend their use. Others may then proceed to decide whether a continued investment in them is justified.
US Coast Guard – Crisis in the Cutter Fleet
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – It’s time to recapitalize aging U.S. Coast Guard cutters and permit the service to continue its invaluable defense of multiple mission areas.
US Navy – U.S. Destroyer Plans In Doubt
– Aviation Week and Space Technology – An exclusive Aviation Week Intelligence Network investigation into the U.S. Navy destroyer fleet and its accompanying combat systems strongly suggests the service will have to upend some $121.8 billion worth of plans for their development, effectively solidifying the grip of incumbent contractors on the work at the very time Navy brass say they’re trying to break such monopolies.
US Navy – US Navy Subs to Deploy Switchblade UAV
– Defense Technology International – The US Navy plans to launch AeroVironment’s Switchblade small, expendable unmanned aircraft from a submerged submarine during the RIMPAC 2012 naval exercise in the Pacific.
Malaysian Navy – Malaysia Becomes First Export Customer for Gowind
– Defense Technology International – DCNS, through its local partner in Malaysia, Boustead Naval Shipyard (BNS), has won its first export contract for a Gowind ship. The €2.14 bn deal has been signed by BNS with the Malaysian government for six Gowind-class corvettes, the biggest of the Gowind family developed on its own funds by the French military naval systems group.
Royal Navy – Nuclear submarine should be sent to Falklands to show British anger at boat ban decision
– Daily Telegraph – A nuclear submarine should be sent to the Falkland Islands to illustrate Britain’s anger at a decision by South American countries to ban boats bearing the island’s flag, the former head of the Royal Navy said.
Piracy – Robots in the Age of Pirates
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – Two executives and a consultant in the long-range unmanned surface vessel (USV) industry detail how the new platforms can police the high seas.
Geopolitics / China – Sun Tzu and the art of soft power
– The Economist – China is using a new tool to boost its influence abroad. Is it the right one?
Geopolitics / Russia – The Civil Archipelago
– New Yorker – How far can the resistance to Vladimir Putin go?
Geopolitics / Pakistan – The Pakistanis Have a Point
– New York Times Magazine – Sure, they can be infuriating, not to mention duplicitous, paranoid and self-pitying. But you try being a U.S. ally.
US Navy – US Navy eyes stationing ships in Singapore
– Reuters – The US Navy will station several new littoral combat ships in Singapore and perhaps in the Philippines in coming years, moves likely to fuel China’s fears of being encircled and pressured in the South China Sea row.
Iraq – Americans can agree that the Iraq war was a mistake
– Daily Telegraph – John Nagl writes that overwhelmingly the American people would say the war was a mistake, and undeniably the reason we went to war in the first place was invalid.
Chinese Navy – US satellite pictures China aircraft carrier Varyag
– BBC – A commercial US satellite company says it has taken a picture of China’s first aircraft carrier during its sea trials in the Yellow Sea.
Chinese Navy – Navy looks at offer from Seychelles
– China Daily – The Chinese navy is considering taking on supplies in the Seychelles while conducting escort missions to tackle piracy.
Air Warfare – Bomber Diplomacy
– Air Force – B-2 and B-52 rotations to Guam offer valuable training—and send a powerful message. A look at Air-Sea Battle as it exists today.
Geopolitics / Pakistan – The Ally From Hell
– The Atlantic – Pakistan lies. It hosted Osama bin Laden (knowingly or not). Its government is barely functional. It hates the democracy next door. It is home to both radical jihadists and a large and growing nuclear arsenal (which it fears the U.S. will seize). Its intelligence service sponsors terrorists who attack American troops. With a friend like this, who needs enemies?
US Navy – The Future of Naval Aviation: This Century’s Naval Aviation Pioneers Flying Unmanned Aircraft
– Brookings Institution – P.W. Singer says the future of naval aviation is unmanned.
Royal Navy – Women to be allowed to serve on Royal Navy submarines
– BBC – Women are to be allowed to serve on Royal Navy submarines, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has confirmed.
Chinese Navy – No, Hu Didn’t Call for War
– The Diplomat – In sum, Hu’s statement didn’t reflect a change in policy or a new emphasis on preparing for war. His routine statement received more attention than it warranted.
Russian Navy – Russian fleet starts patrol in Atlantic, Mediterranean
– Xinhua – An aircraft carrier combat group of Russia’s Northern Fleet on Tuesday started patrol missions in the Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea, the fleet’s spokesman said.
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