Reuters – Germany will expand its military presence in the Indo-Pacific by sending more warships and joining drills with allies as it keeps an eye on the “enormous” build-up of China’s armed forces, the German defence chief told Reuters.
Lost At Sea: Teaching, Studying, and Promoting Coast Guard History
USNI Proceedings – The service must foster pride in its heritage among new recruits and officers.
Iran’s Attempted Theft Of U.S. Navy Drone Boat Is Likely A Sign Of What’s To Come
War Zone – The incident highlights unanswered questions about the risks of theft posed to unmanned vessels as their use is set rapidly expand.
US Navy prevents Iranian attempt to capture American maritime drone in Persian Gulf
CNN – The US Navy prevented an Iranian ship from capturing an American maritime drone in the Persian gulf overnight Monday into Tuesday local time in what a senior US commander called a “flagrant” and “unwarranted” incident.
Controlling The First Island Chain: How To Ensure China Can’t Dominate The Pacific?
1945 – James Holmes writes that if you harbored any doubt that the first island chain represents the focal point of strategy, counterstrategy, and counter-counterstrategy in the Western Pacific, take a gander at recent developments out of Tokyo and Beijing. Exhibit A: the Japan Ministry of Defense released Defense of Japan 2022, an official statement wherein the ministry takes stock of Japan’s strategic surroundings and explains in general terms how it intends to manage them.
Follow Up the Chips Act with the ‘Ships Act’
National Review – Jerry Hendrix says the United States must pursue a realistic approach to its defense and economic strategies, emphasizing the sea and the competition thereon.
UK Donating Mine Warfare UUVs To Ukraine
Naval News – The UK is giving underwater drones to Ukraine and training Ukrainian personnel in Britain to use them to clear their coastline of mines.
A Campaign Plan for the South China Sea
USNI Proceedings – U.S. forces must act more deliberately to counter China’s at-sea insurgency.
US Coast Guard cutter is denied port call in Solomon Islands
AP – A U.S. coast guard cutter conducting patrols as part of an international mission to prevent illegal fishing was recently unable to get clearance for a scheduled port call in Solomon Islands, an incident that comes amid growing concerns of Chinese influence on the Pacific nation.
Russian S-300 Missile System Slips Through Bosporus Towards War In Ukraine
Naval News – Russia is prevented from moving its warships from the Mediterrean to the Black Sea because Turkey closed the Bosporus to warships. The narrow straits control access. Yet Russia has been able to transport advanced weapons systems, such as S-300 missiles, through the straits to support the war in Ukraine.
PLA aircraft carrier Shandong holds drills in South China Sea in full combat group
Global Times – The Shandong, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy’s second aircraft carrier and the first domestically built, recently held comprehensive drills in the South China Sea in a group consisting of full combat elements, which analysts said on Thursday showed the carrier is becoming ready for far sea operations.
For 1st time China sends ground, naval, air forces to join Russian Vostok drills
Global Times – The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has dispatched forces to join the upcoming Vostok-2022 in Russia, with PLA ground and air forces having already arrived at the designated drill region and naval forces being rendezvoused with Russian warships at sea. This is the first time the PLA has sent three of its forces to participate in a single Russian drill, observers said.
US Navy Talks About USV, Data And MUM-T
Naval News – At the Surface Navy Associations’ Waterfront Symposium 2022, held on August 17-18, the U.S. Navy fielded audience questions regarding the status of the unmanned surface vessels (USV) that participated in Rim of the Pacific 2022 (RIMPAC 2022) naval exercise. Specifically, the USV panel discussed data and manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) of aerial, surface, and sub-surface vessels.
The State of the Warfighter Mentality in the SWO Community
CIMSEC – As the United States shifts focus from the Global War on Terror to peer competitors, senior naval leaders have increased messaging to the fleet that focuses on preparing for war at sea. Considering this shift, I investigated the state of the warfighter mentality in the Surface Warfare Officer (SWO) community to gauge how the community felt about its own readiness.
Finnish-Estonian Cooperation Turning Baltic Sea Into A NATO-Lake
Naval News – Finland and Estonia have reached an agreement that will see their respective navies integrate their coastal defences so that they can be better coordinated and close the Gulf of Finland to enemy vessels.
Defense of Japan 2022
Japanese Ministry of Defense – The 2022 Self Defense Force White Paper on the defense of Japan.
Aboard the autonomous Mariner, the Navy’s latest unmanned surface ship
Breaking Defense – The USV Mariner is a direct result of the Strategic Capabilities Office’s Project Overlord program. Breaking Defense recently went inside the high-tech vessel.
HMS Somerset suffers major systems failure after leak
UKDJ – The Type 23 Frigate remains alongside at Rosyth after an emergency drydocking following “a major leak” earlier in the year and a recent “major failure” of her systems, with her becoming a “dead ship” for a short time.
(Thanks to Alain)
14 Russian Warships Enter Sea of Japan Ahead of Major Military Exercises
USNI News – A group of 14 Russian Navy ships transited through La Pérouse Strait from the Western Pacific Ocean into the Sea of Japan ahead of Russian military drills scheduled to start next week, the Japan Ministry of Defense said on Monday.
How Does China Deter America In The Taiwan Strait?
1945 – Chinese leaders take delight in the results of wargames such as the one conducted recently at CSIS, which showed that America could win in the Taiwan Strait but only at a terrible cost.
The Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis is Just Starting
War on the Rocks – The Chinese military exercises that began on Aug. 3, 2022, have initiated the Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis. The most immediate reason for this was Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei. But this is a bigger crisis, driven by bigger factors. There has been a steady erosion in Sino-American relations and — not unrelated — a shift in the nature of U.S.-Taiwan relations that Beijing finds deeply threatening. As a result, expectations of a rapid resolution to the crisis are chimeric, as too are blithe expectations of a quick return to the status quo ante.
Decisionmaking at the Speed of the Digital Era
CSIS – The United States has stated it is in a strategic competition with China. Analysts and actors identify the need to rapidly iterate through concepts and capabilities to develop new, more effective means of engaging in that competition. At present, however, the Department of Defense underutilizes publicly available data and the software development community to build tools that enable faster modeling, hypothesis testing, and variability analysis than traditional wargaming or modeling alone. This brief describes the speed and utility of developing a simple software tool to stress test a hypothetical People’s Republic of China (PRC) surprise attack against U.S. facilities in the Indo-Pacific.
Implications of a Coercive Quarantine of Taiwan by the People’s Republic of China
RAND – China’s coercive options for Taiwan range from routine violations of Taiwan’s declared Air Defense Identification Zone to a full-scale invasion. Within the spectrum are efforts to isolate Taiwan to prevent it from sending exports or receiving imports. Typically, this would be called a blockade. However, because China does not view the government on Taiwan as sovereign and thus rejects the idea that a state of war could exist, blockadeis not the correct term. Therefore, in this report, the authors examine how China might implement a quarantine of Taiwan. Unlike in a blockade scenario, China’s goals for the quarantine would not be to completely cut off food and supplies to Taiwan, but rather to demonstrate de facto sovereignty by controlling the air and maritime space around the island, as well as which cargo deliveries, ships, aircraft, and people have access to Taiwan.
Russian Navy Crews Are Under Orders To Avoid The Ukrainian Coast
Forbes – The commanders of the Russian navy’s Black Sea Fleet are scared to send their surviving surface warships beyond sight of the Crimean coast.
Russia’s naval doctrine may call for challenging the West, but does it have the shipyards?
Breaking Defense – Russia’s new maritime doctrine signals its intent to challenge the United States and allies on the seas, but there is skepticism about the country’s ability to build a fleet capable of doing that given its limited options for shipyards and weakened supply chains.
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