U.S. Army Mad Scientist Laboratory – The Mad Scientist Laboratory is excited to feature today’s post by returning guest blogger Mr. Ian Sullivan, who converges the power of wargaming with narrative to compellingly imagine the unthinkable — China defeating the US in large scale combat operations.
Monthly Archives: July 2021
Great Power Competition Requires Theater Deterrence
USNI Proceedings – The United States and its allies must have sufficient combat power in key theaters such that the enemy will hesitate to undertake hostile operations.
China’s New Super Carrier: How It Compares To The US Navy’s Ford Class
Naval News – A new aircraft carrier, currently under construction in Shanghai, is the most visible sign of China’s rapidly expanding navy. It is larger than China’s current two carriers and differs in key aspects. But the natural comparison is to the U.S. Navy’s latest carriers, the Ford Class.
Offshore Balancing with Chinese Characteristics
StrategyBridge – The conventional wisdom in Washington today is that China is committed to achieving global supremacy. But that conventional wisdom is built on the dubious assumption that China’s economic growth of the past several decades will continue unabated into the future. The reality, however, is quite different. China is not destined to continue its meteoric rise as an economic power. Indeed, China’s economy is already beginning to stall. This being the case, China is unlikely to be able to pursue a revisionist policy of upending the liberal international order, even if the current leadership continues to pursue an assertive foreign policy while it is able to do so. But while the U.S. foreign policy establishment ought to plan for a period of turbulence as China’s leaders reluctantly come to grips with the reality of peak China, the more pressing need is to begin a conversation about the future of American grand strategy that takes as its jumping off point the fundamental reality that China’s rise is coming to an end.
Don’t Overlook the Medical Fleet in Distributed Maritime Operations
CIMSEC – The medical fleet is often overlooked in discussions about Distributed Maritime Operations.
Freedom on Navigation Operations: A Mission For Unmanned Systems
War on the Rocks – The time has come for the U.S. Navy to pass the freedom of navigation mission set to unmanned systems
The Future of Sea Basing For U.S. Army Transportation
CIMSEC – The Army faces challenges with sea basing due to its focus on land warfare.
Rafael Unveils A New Long Range Guided Missile System, ‘Sea Breaker’
Naval News – Sea Breaker, a 5th generation long range, autonomous, precision-guided missile system, enabling significant attack performance against a variety of high-value maritime and land targets.
(Thanks to Alain)
More NATO Ships Enter Black Sea While Tensions With Russia Simmer
USNI News – The flagship of Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 entered the Black Sea on Thursday with two more alliance warships set to join the Sea Breeze exercises that started earlier this week.
Beyond MSC and Amphibs: Unconventional Sealift
CIMSEC – Warships can provide sealift support for EABO forces. This would naturally have to fit in with other tasking for these ships, so it generally won’t provide predictable resupply, especially when using high-demand assets, but it would still provide additional sealift capacity at essentially no cost.
Stormy Waters Ahead For Amphibious Shipbuilding Plan
Breaking Defense – Buried within the Navy’s fiscal 2022 shipbuilding plan is a major disruption of the amphibious fleet and its industrial base.
Strategic Sealift’s Merchant Mariner Problem
CIMSEC – Merchant mariners are essential personnel to America’s economy and warfighting enterprise.
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Sealift Forces For the Future Operating Environment: An Airlifter’s Perspective
CIMSEC – As the long arm of American military power, USTRANSCOM must have the capability to deliver forces anywhere in the world at lightning speed. Maintaining this capability means deliberately monitoring competitors’ capabilities and countering them when they threaten the ability to deploy military force.
Naval Special Warfare in a ‘Race for Relevancy’ as Mission Shifts to High-end Conflict
USNI News – The integration of Navy SEALs and special boat teams into carrier strike group and amphibious ready group training exercises reflects naval special warfare’s renewed commitment to support the fleet and joint force and reinforce its own roots as naval commandos.
Why The Russian Navy Is Testing The West In The Black Sea And Mediterranean
1945 – James Holmes asks how to make sense of this flurry of air and sea activity?
U.S. Navy Ballistic Missile Submarine’s Gibraltar Visit Is First In Over Two Decades
War Zone – The Navy has shared some additional details about USS Alaska’s very rare stopover, which comes amid a flurry of naval activity in the region.
(Thanks to Alain)
Strategic Sealift is Broken: Which Direction Are We Headed?
CIMSEC – This article will survey some of the issues that have caused the Strategic Sealift decline, describe some mistakes that have been made in trying to correct them, and propose a few possible solutions to ensure the warfighters have the tools they need to quickly respond to emergent contingencies.
Submarine B-602 Magadan has entered the factory sea trials
BMPD – It is reported that on June 25, 2021, for the first time, a large diesel-electric submarine B-602 Magadan (factory number 01616) of project 06363, built for the Russian Navy in St. Petersburg at Admiralty Shipyards JSC (part of United Shipbuilding Corporation JSC – USC), was released for factory sea sea sea. This is the third of six Project 06363 submarines under construction for the Pacific Fleet. (In Russian)
(Thanks to Alain)
Gradually and Then Suddenly: Explaining the Navy’s Strategic Bankruptcy
War on the Rocks – The U.S. Navy is on the verge of strategic bankruptcy. Its fleet isn’t large enough to meet global day-to-day demands for naval forces. Due to repeated deployments and maintenance backlogs, the fleet also isn’t ready enough to meet these demands safely, nor can it quickly surge in an emergency. Finally, the fleet isn’t capable enough to meet the challenges posed by China’s increasingly modern and aggressive People’s Liberation Army Navy. How did this happen to a force that, as recently as two decades ago, dominated the world’s oceans to a degree perhaps unequalled in human history? The answer is gradually and then suddenly.
Urgent lessons from Indonesia’s submarine disaster
East Asia Forum – A thorough and independent investigation to identify its primary cause is urgently needed, as a form of accountability to the perished crew and to prevent a similar tragedy from happening in the future.
(Thanks to Alain)
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