– Breaking Defense – By 2021, plans call for Japan to have eight Aegis destroyers, four of them capable of launching the SM-3 Block IIA missiles, whose second successful test in a row comes as a vindication after two previous failures.
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Truman Strike Group Headed Home After ‘Dynamic’ Deployment
– USNI News – The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group has sailed out of U.S. 6th Fleet and is on its way back to its homeport in Norfolk, Va. The strike group is wrapping up the second of two back-to-back three-month deployments as part of the Navy’s first attempt to demonstrate the Pentagon’s dynamic force employment concept.
Short Story Week Concludes on CIMSEC
– CIMSEC – In response to our Call for Articles, talented writers explored various national security themes through fiction. From future undersea warfare to unmanned tactical scenarios, authors envisioned the complexity and confusion of future conflict with incredible imagination.
Can China and the United States Avoid War?
– USNI Proceedings – Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd —in his keynote address at the New China Challenge conference in October—considered the strategic competition between the United States and China. This article is adapted from his speech.
Short Story Week on CIMSEC
– CIMSEC – This week CIMSEC featured 6 fictional short stories which explore various national security themes through fiction. Check them out as there is no better way to think about the future than through fiction…
What the Lull in Aircraft Carrier Deployments Means
– USNI Proceedings – As USNI News reported last month, U.S. aircraft carrier deployments this year have been at a 25-year low, and there were 22 days in 2018 when no carriers were deployed at all. Some pundits might speculate what the Navy is up to, but overall there is good news and some key takeaways.
Blame Alfred Thayer Mahan for Pearl Harbor (and Thank Him for Its Failure)
– National Interest – Skip parts of a treatise and you garner only part of its wisdom—and maybe not the part most relevant to your cause.
USS Wasp Headed Back to Norfolk Next Year after Brief Japan Deployment
– USNI News – After less than a year in Japan, the amphibious warship USS Wasp (LHD-1) is preparing its sailors to return to the East Coast next year. Wasp, one of two amphibious warships certified to operate Marine F-35B Lighting II Joint Strike Fighters, is set to return to Naval Station Norfolk, Va., in late 2019 as part of a previously set plan to balance the F-35B capability across both coasts
PLA Navy to have at least 5 carriers
– Global Times – The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy will operate at least five aircraft carriers in the near future, including the country’s first two nuclear-powered ones that would likely be launched around 2025, Chinese military experts predicted on Wednesday.
A Maritime Requirements Picture Book
– USNI Blog – We are blessed as much as others are challenged…
U.S. Destroyer Conducts FONOP Near Russian Pacific Fleet Headquarters
– USNI News – A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer conducted a freedom of navigation operation on Wednesday near the home of Russia’s Pacific fleet.
US Navy’s littoral combat ship program inches closer to fielding new capabilities
– Defense News – The U.S. Navy took delivery of the last piece of the littoral combat ship’s anti-submarine warfare mission module Nov. 30, according to a release from Naval Sea Systems Command, pushing the service closer to declaring the well-delayed capability operational despite continued headwinds.
An Offbeat Take on Putin and the Sea of Azov
– USNI Blog – What is Putin’s government up to? Oddly enough, counterinsurgent theory helps explain Russian motives and actions. So does thermodynamics.
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Winning the Joint Fight
– USNI Blog – It is important that the Marine Corps quickly take the lead in the expeditionary fires realm. However, it needs to leverage Army air defense and artillery capabilities and contacts to bring the idea to fruition and ultimately link-up under a Navy command and control umbrella.
Ukraine-Russia clash: Nato’s dilemma in the Black Sea
– BBC – Does crisis beckon in the Black Sea? Could Russia and Nato even come to blows?
Marine Corps Warfighting Lab Experiments Heading Toward Massive Sea Control Event
– USNI News – The Marine Corps’ ongoing Sea Dragon experimentation campaign is working on one of the most pressing issues the naval force faces: how to incorporate the Marine Corps into the Navy’s battle for sea control.
Foreign Warships May Use Northeast Passage Only After Notifying Russia
– Sputnik News – The Northern Sea Route is a shipping lane running along the Russian Arctic coast, allowing passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific via the Northern coast of Siberia. Starting in 2019, foreign warships will only be able to sail along the Northern Sea Route after notifying Russian authorities.
What World War I Tells Us About a China-Japan War Today
– National Interest – Consider what the Great War has to say about the military balance between China and Japan and how an East Asian war might unfold. Conventional opinion in Japan has long held that China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) would more or less steamroller the Japan Self-Defense Force (JSDF) in wartime. Demographics, economics, defense budgets, you name it: they all line up on China’s side.
Martime Partnerships and the Future of US Seapower in the Indo-Pacific
– CIMSEC – The future of U.S. seapower in the Indo-Pacific is filled with challenges yet ripe with opportunity.
Experts say Russia’s actions in the Kerch Strait were illegal
– Defense News – Russia’s seizure of Ukraine’s naval vessels is illegal, no matter whose version of events is true, according to three international law experts.
On the Cutting Edge of US Navy Exercising: Surface Warfare Advanced Tactical Training
– CIMSEC – CIMSEC had the opportunity to ask leaders at the Naval Surface and Mine Warfighting Development Center (SMWDC) and the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) Carrier Strike Group about the first East Coast Carrier Strike Group (CSG) Cruiser-Destroyer (CRUDES) Surface Warfare Advanced Tactical Training (SWATT) exercise.
U.S. Is Betting Big On Naval Mine Warfare With These New Sub-Launched and Air-Dropped Types
– War Zone – In the next few years, the Navy hopes to develop four new mines to help deny enemy navies freedom of movement during major conflicts.
Royal Navy and RAF locked in dogfight over new jets that cannot fly from warships
– Sky News – Sources tell Sky News that senior RAF officers are pushing for a version of a supersonic warplane that can only fly from land.
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