– War on the Rocks – In the final analysis, expeditionary advanced base operations is a concept designed to exploit geography and contribute to winning a hard war against a nation with military capabilities approaching those of the United States. It gives the American military its best chance to win such a conflict. But, vastly more important, if the United States is prepared to implement this concept, it presents the nation with the best possible chance of deterring a future conflict and preserving the peace.
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The Role of Public Affairs in U.S. Seapower, Part 2
– CIMSEC – We will explore how to synchronize information power to enable maritime strategy, along with several counter-arguments and perspectives.
China swings a small stick in the South China Sea
– The Hill – It’s hard to drive China out of the headlines. Yet a dispute between Iran and Great Britain, each of which has seized a tanker ship belonging to the other, has managed it in recent weeks — eclipsing a running feud between Vietnam and China, whose ships have squared off at Vanguard Bank, the westernmost feature in the Spratly Islands. For all that, the South China Sea dispute entails consequences at least as severe as those in the Persian Gulf.
Talisman Sabre: Land-Based Missiles Vs. China
– Breaking Defense – The Army’s experimental Multi-Domain Task Force tested new tactics for Pacific conflict, hand-in-glove with the Marines, Air Force, and Australians.
USS Mount Whitney Brings 6th Fleet Autonomy, Flexibility of Command at Sea
– USNI News – One of two Blue Ridge-class command and control ships in the fleet, Mount Whitney serves as the U.S. 6th Fleet command ship and would be the platform from which operations would be controlled if a war were to occur in theater.
War Studies Primer
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Korean Fat Leonard? Feds probe new US Navy corruption case in Asia
– Defense News – The Justice Department has filed corruption charges against the head of a Busan, Korea,-based husbanding services provider in a case with unmistakable echoes of the Fat Leonard scandal that has rocked the Navy since the investigation was revealed in 2013.
The Army Abruptly Pulls Ship Auction Listings And Halts Plans To Slash Its Naval Fleet
– War Zone – The service had controversially planned to sell off dozens of ships and other watercraft, inactivating multiple units in the process.
Sacred Cows Die As Marine Commandant Changes Course On Amphibs
– Breaking Defense – “It would be illogical to continue to concentrate our forces on a few large ships,” the new USMC Commandant writes in his new guidance, setting decades of planning on its head. So what’s next?
Iran tanker seizure: UK warship HMS Duncan arrives in Gulf
– BBC – A second Royal Navy warship has arrived in the Gulf to protect British ships amid heightened tensions in the region.
How geopolitics make the U.S. Navy’s plans for major Arctic operations so complicated
– Arctic Today – The U.S. Navy will conduct some kind of Arctic operations this summer — but it hasn’t said exactly what. Every option comes with potential issues.
Here’s Why Naval Convoys Are An Ideal Solution Hated By Everyone
– War Zone – As Iran threatens commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, many are calling for convoys. Here is why they aren’t so easy to execute or maintain.
How the U.S. Could Lose a War With China
– The Atlantic – It’s not that the Chinese Communist Party would take over Washington. But in its own region, China has the advantage.
Marines Reach 2011 Goal of 2,500 in Darwin, With Addition of HIMARS Platoon, More to Current Rotation
– USNI News – The deployment of a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) platoon to Australia has helped the Marine Corps reach the 2,500-Marine presence in Darwin that U.S. and Australian leaders promised in 2011.
In a naval confrontation with Iran, Great Britain can find neither ships nor friends
– Defense News – The U.K. has the responsibility to protect its own ships, but doesn’t have the Navy it needs to do it.
U.S. Will Provide Intel to Allies to Keep Middle East Merchant Ships Safe, Not Warship Escorts
– USNI News – American forces are willing to provide allies with intelligence on potential maritime threats in the Middle East, but countries will need to bring their own escorts.
Cutter Bertholf’s Indo-Pac Deployment Highlighted Coast Guard’s National Security Role
– USNI News – On its recent Indo-Pacific patrols, the Coast Guard cutter USCGC Bertholf (WSML-750) thwarted illegal oil and coal shipments that violated of U.N. Security Council sanctions against North Korea, transited the Strait of Taiwan amid condemnation from China and worked with U.S. allies to bolster their own coast guard forces.
Coast Guard Expanding Western Pacific Operations
– USNI News – The U.S. Coast Guard will increase its presence and deployments to Asia – particularly around Oceania and U.S. Pacific territories – and test out a new operational deployment concept in the region.
U.S. Sides With Vietnam in Maritime Dispute With China
– Washington Free Beacon – State Department warns Chinese to end ‘bullying’ toward oil and gas search.
North Korea’s New Ballistic Missile Submarine Is A Refurbished Antique
– War Zone – The boat is based on a dated 1950s Soviet design, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a significant development.
Faulty battery may have sparked Russian submarine fire
– Guardian – A malfunctioning lithium-ion battery may have sparked a deadly fire on a top-secret Russian nuclear submersible earlier this month that killed 14 naval officers.
Cambodia Denies Report Of Deal With China For Use Of Naval Base
– NPR – Cambodia’s prime minister has denounced as “fake news” a report in The Wall Street Journal that his country had signed a secret deal to allow Chinese warships to use a naval base in the Gulf of Thailand.
South Korea to build ship for short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing aircraft
– Defense News – South Korea is to launch a new version of a large-deck landing ship from which short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing aircraft can operate by the late 2020s, amid naval buildups in China and Japan.
Corvette Carriers: A New Littoral Warfare Strategy
– USNI Proceedings – With the renewal of great power competition, the Navy–Marine Corps team must employ ships that can threaten adversaries in their home waters.
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