– Aviation Week and Space Technology – Australian analysts are starting to examine how combat between the U.S. and China over the Taiwan Strait might play out and what’s needed to produce a win for small, high-tech forces.
Author Archives: Naval Open Source Intelligence (NOSI)
US Navy – US Will Counter Chinese Arms Buildup
– New York Times – The Pentagon is stepping up investments in a range of weapons, jet fighters and technology in response to the Chinese military buildup in the Pacific, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Saturday on the eve of his visit to Beijing.
Geopolitics / Indian Ocean – US Navy’s Indian Ocean Folly?
– The Diplomat – Maritime strategy seems increasingly focused on the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf. It risks leaving the Navy vulnerable in the Pacific.
US Marines – Gates wants to drop Marines' $14 billion landing-craft project
– Washington Post – A long-troubled $14 billion program to build a landing craft for the Marine Corps is destined for the chopping block, defense officials and analysts said Wednesday, part of $100 billion in savings that Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has pledged to squeeze from the Pentagon’s budget.
US Navy – Common LCS Combat System Debated
– Defense Technology International – Now that the U.S. Navy has worked out its shipbuilding plan for its Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the service can start eyeing a possible common combat system for the LCS fleet.
US Navy – U.S. Navy Awards LCS Contracts to Lockheed and Austal
– Defense Technology International – The Navy wasted little time in taking advantage of congressional support for the service’s dual-block-buy plan for its Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), awarding fixed-price-incentive contracts tonight to both Lockheed Martin and Austal USA for the design and construction of a 10 ship block-buy each.
US Navy – Transforming U.S. military might into 21st-century weapons
– Washington Post – Nice insight into how the US should be spending its defense dollars…
US Navy – Air Sea Battle A Point of Departure Operational Concept
– Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments – A detailed look at the Air Sea Battle plan…
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Portugese Navy – Portugal takes delivery of second sub
– UPI – Portugal took delivery of the second of two Class 209PN diesel submarines, the NRP Arpao, handed over at the Baltic coast shipyards of Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft.
Chinese Navy – Military strength is eluding China
–Chinese Navy – Military strength is eluding China – A different view of the Chinese Navy’s strength…
US Marines – Navy, Marines Game Out Their Future
– Defense Technology International – On December 11, the Navy and Marine Corps kicked off Bold Alligator, a simulation that marks the largest joint fleet simulated amphibious exercise in the last 10 years. Brig. Gen. Christopher S. Owens of the II Marine Expeditionary Force, the Marine component of Exercise Bold Alligator, said in a conference call last week that while it’s the first brigade-level amphibious exercise in quite some time, “it’s also a first step in our revitalization of our amphibious proficiency with larger or brigade-size units” after a decade of kicking sand.
Russian Navy – French Deal to Sell Ships to Russians Is Criticized
– New York Times – Since a low-key Christmas Eve announcement of a French sale of assault ships to Russia, high-level government deal makers have boasted about the multimillion-euro deal like it was a soccer game triumph…But critics – particularly among Russia’s neighbors including Georgia, Estonia and Lithuania – are raising alarms that France may have pioneered the way for other Western countries to sell Russia whatever they have to offer, from high-technology military equipment to rights for oil pipelines.
Russian Navy – Russia to buy two warships in deal with France
– Washington Post – After a long hesitation and arduous negotiations, Russia has decided to buy at least two of France’s advanced Mistral-class amphibious warships in an unprecedented military deal between Moscow and the West.
US Navy – Navy Awards Two Contracts to Build New Combat Ships
– New York Times – The Navy on Wednesday awarded two companies contracts that could be worth a total of more than $7 billion to build 20 of its new littoral combat ships, splitting the purchase to obtain the vessels more quickly.
Iranian Navy – Iran meets with US Navy over piracy
– Associated Press – A common fight against piracy brought U.S. and Iranian navy commanders together in a meeting with other participants earlier this month.
Chinese Navy – U.S. commander says China aims to be a 'global military' power
– Asahi Shimbun – Robert Willard, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, said he believes that China aspires to become a “global military (power)” by extending its influence beyond its regional waters.
Chinese Navy – China Deploys World’s First Long-Range, Land-Based ‘Carrier Killer’: DF-21D Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile (ASBM) Reaches “Initial Operational Capability” (IOC)
– China Sign Post – As we enter the Year of the Hare, China has achieved a major military milestone far faster than many foreign observers thought possible. In a December 2010 interview with veteran national security journalist Yoichi Kato of the Asahi Shimbun, Admiral Robert F. Willard, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command, offered significant new revelations.
Chinese Navy – China speeds plans to launch aircraft carrier
– Reuters – China may be ready to launch its first aircraft carrier in 2011, Chinese military and political sources said on Thursday, a year ahead of U.S. military analysts’ expectations.
Chinese Navy – China's aircraft carrier ambitions
– Reuters – Here are some facts about China’s carrier ambitions.
US Navy – What Lies Beneath
– Los Angeles Times Magazine – An insider’s tale of a search for Soviet bombs in the Pacific can finally be told.
Ground Warfare – The Gun
– Esquire – It is perhaps the most potent question to echo from the cold war: Who lost Vietnam? Well, there were certainly many factors, but an important new book forces us to consider this: For the first time in human history, a poorly trained peasant army humbled a great power with the gun its fighters carried in their hands. This is the story of that gun, and of the scandalous way that Washington responded to it. An exclusive adaptation from CJ Chiver’s new book on the AK-47.
US Marines – Hitting the Beach in the 21st Century
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – As adversaries and weapons grow more advanced, amphibious doctrine must evolve, and the Navy—Marine Corps team must keep the blade sharpened for sea-to-shore capabilities.
Air Warfare – Airpower Over Water
– Air Force – The mission spent the 1990s adrift, but aircraft are again seen as a prime way to track and target threats at sea.
US Marines – Versatility in the Age of Uncertainty
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – With its ability to work across the seams of other services’ domains and its value in the all-important littoral sphere, the Marine Corps remains as relevant as ever in the 21st century.
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