BBC – Australia has accused the pilot of a Chinese fighter jet of carrying out a dangerous manoeuvre near one of its aircraft over the South China Sea.
Yearly Archives: 2022
Keep War Confined to the ‘Seas’
USNI Proceedings – Orienting more resources to naval, space, and cyberspace capabilities may be a more effective deterrent to war in the Pacific than a strategy based on strikes against the Chinese mainland.
American Sea Power Project: Geography Plays An Ocean-Sized Role
USNI Proceedings – Naval strategists and operational planners must consider chokepoints, bases, island chains, and vast oceanic distances as they draft warplans and consider adversary courses of action.
Don’t Buy Warships (Yet)
USNI Proceedings – The Navy should procure weapons to manage near-term risks, while revitalizing civilian shipyards to ready for long-term competition.
The Importance of Unmanned Logistics Support For a Transforming Marine Corps
CIMSEC – Advanced base operations could involve Marines being cut off from sustainment, whether as forces that have been blockaded or forces that have been bypassed by opposing naval forces. Marines will require robust pre-positioned stocks to have enough self-sufficiency to continue the fight in the absence of sustainment, and sustainment assets must be more distributed and risk-worthy than legacy platforms. Unmanned systems can fill this gap.
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Navy Finally Sends Littoral Combat Ship To Middle East
War Zone – The Freedom class USS Sioux City recently became the first of either of the U.S. Navy’s two types of Littoral Combat Ship to deploy to Middle Eastern waters. The service has long said that these vessels, the first of which entered service in 2008, would be ideally suited to operating in the region. However, this historical trip comes as the Navy now plans to decommission and potentially sell off all of its existing Freedom class ships due to a design flaw, combat relevancy, and other considerations.
Feedback On French Navy High Intensity Exercise POLARIS
Naval News – In a report published by the French Parliament’s National Defense and Armed Forces Committee, members of parliament (MPs) review the French Navy (Marine Nationale)’s feedback on the high-intensity exercise ‘POLARIS’ conducted from November 18 to December 3, 2021.
China launches empire building exercise in Pacific theatre
The Sunday Guardian – China’s plan for the Pacific.
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary in 2022
Navy Lookout – The ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary are critical for the Royal Navy to operate worldwide but despite its excellent capabilities, the service is in slow decline. Here we look at the current status of the fleet.
The First Stand-In Forces: The Role of International Affairs Marines in Force Design 2030
CIMSEC – A key challenge facing the current and future Marine Corps is gaining and maintaining access. After framing the central role that access challenges will play in implementing Force Design 2030 and its associated warfighting concepts, recommendations are then proposed for how the USMC can best employ its cadre of international affairs (IA) Marines to address this access challenge.
How The Quad Can Take On China In The ‘Gray-Zone’
1945 – James Holmes says that The Quad initiative is a saltwater, multinational version of the “intelligence cycle,” whereby intelligence services plan what information they need to collect to attack issues at hand; gather raw data from technical and human sources; process and analyze the data to distill useful insights from it, and disseminate their findings to the right customers to help them devise and execute strategy and operations. And then customers provide feedback on the planning process, shaping future rounds of the cycle.
China Launches Drone Ship That Acts As A Mothership For More Drones
War Zone – China’s new drone ship is officially designed for ocean research, but has obvious value for the country’s military.
Navy’s 85-Foot Orca Unmanned Submarine Will Be A Minelayer First
War Zone – The first Boeing-built Orca unmanned submarine will begin testing this summer and its first mission will be laying sea mines.
Taiwan’s Coast Guard Tests Its Ability To Turn Cutters Into Ship Killers
War Zone – In what could be a very useful capability if an invasion kicked-off, the Taiwanese Coast Guard conducted live-fire drills with anti-ship missiles.
Are the Marines Inventing the Edsel or the Mustang?
War on the Rocks – Ford Motor Company’s development of the Edsel 60 years ago still stands as a classic corporate case study of transformative product failure. The Marine Corps, a $50 billion dollar enterprise, has introduced its own futuristic product — an explicitly defensive island-hopping “Stand-In Force” capable of reconnoitering and sinking warships in order to support naval campaigns. To pay for it, the Marine Corps intends to cut its main product line — infantry supported by artillery, armor, and air — by about 25 percent.
Antisubmarine Warfare for the Amphibious Warfare Team
CIMSEC – An integrated Navy and Marine Corps team could develop a composite ASW element for the ARG. This element should include Navy and Marine Corps aircraft outfitted for ASW, Navy personnel to support the Amphibious Squadron Composite Warfare Commander, and Command, Control, Computers, Communications, and Intelligence (C4I) systems to provide protection for the ARG in the ASW fight. Many of these systems already exist and only need to be adapted for the ships and aircraft of the ARG.
DARPA’s revolutionary seaplane wants to change how the Pentagon hauls cargo
Breaking Defense – For it’s Liberty Lifter project, the research agency is betting on a concept called the “wing-in-ground effect,” an aerodynamic principle that’s well-known but proven difficult to master.
Preparing For Change is as Important as Change Itself: Change Management and Force Design 2030
CIMSEC – The problem with Force Design 2030 (FD2030) and Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO) is that they both involve massive institutional changes being executed in a very short time. More specifically, there are multiple significant changes involved in implementing these broader concepts. Any of these by themselves would be a significant shift in the institution. Implementing them all simultaneously may be, in military parlance, “a bridge too far.”
China slams Japan for close-range tracking of aircraft carrier, says it doesn’t want ‘dedicated photographers’
Global Times – China on Thursday slammed Japan for making dangerous close-range tracking and disruptions to an aircraft carrier of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy during the latter’s recent, legitimate drills in the West Pacific, with analysts saying that the Japanese move reflected the country’s ulterior motive of offensive military expansion under the excuse of the “China threat” theory.
In tactical boost, Israeli Navy to receive 2 US-made landing craft
Israel Hayoum – Landing craft are used primarily to transport and tactically deploy soldiers, equipment, vehicles, and supplies from ship to shore during offensive military operations and could be deployed in case of conflict with Hezbollah.
(Thanks to Alain)
UK backs Lithuania’s plan to lift Russian blockade of Ukraine grain
Guardian – Britain supports in principle the call for a naval coalition ‘of the willing’ to restart exports through Black Sea.
(Thanks to Alain)
Russian warship sailors refuse to perform combat duties citing equipment fund embezzlement
Euroweekly – The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence’s intelligence unit is reporting that some Russian sailors are refusing to carry out combat tasks on the country’s warships due to them being in such critical condition and commanders taking maintenance money.
(Thanks to Alain)
EABO Beyond the Indo-Pacific: Reimagining the “Battle of the Aegean”
CIMSEC – The following contingency updates and expands upon “The Battle of the Aegean” scenario described in Chapter 15 of Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations, 3d Ed.
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