USNI News – An Iranian Navy ship thought to be bound for Venezuela left its port in late April with seven high-speed missile-attack craft strapped to its deck.
From Orbit to Ocean—Fixing Southeast Asia’s Remote-Sensing Blind Spots
US Naval War College Review – Improving maritime domain awareness (MDA) in Southeast Asia is critical not only for regional states but for the national-security interests of the United States. MDA in the coming decades will be dominated by cheaper, more-efficient remote-sensing tools, and the United States and other outside parties should shift toward introducing partners to the booming private-sector offerings in remote sensing.
Stop Saying The U.S. Military Spends More Than China (It Might Not Matter)
1945 – James Holmes discusses the casual claim that because the United States spends more on defense than the next X countries combined—X usually being defined as ten or upwards—it is so crushingly superior that it need not spend more and could probably get away with spending less on the armed forces.
Indian Navy’s First Indigenous Aircraft Carrier Vikrant Catching Up To China
Naval News – The Chinese Navy is rapidly expanding its aircraft carrier fleet, with two in service and at least one more under construction. And while still new to the game, their experience of operating carriers is growing all the time. Regional rival India has a much longer tradition of carrier aviation, but fewer and smaller carriers. The first indigenous aircraft carrier, Vikrant, could keep India competitive however.
Check Out This Backpack-Mounted Signals Intelligence System Worn By A Marine Special Operator
War Zone – “Body-worn” signal snooping gear gives American special operators an additional way to spot and track enemy forces, and monitor their surroundings.
7th Fleet CO: Deployed LCS USS Gabrielle Giffords ‘Pretty Much Owned’ South China Sea
USNI News – The Navy is now pushing the Littoral Combat Ships out into the Pacific in force after more than a decade of stops and starts and studies.
Fleet Growth Stymied by Fiscal Year 2022 Navy Budget Request
USNI News – The long-delayed Navy Fiscal Year 2022 budget request submitted to Congress May 28 reflects modest increases in several areas, but overall shows no significant changes, either in weapons procurement or readiness accounts.
How NATO Would Wage A Fourth Battle Of The Atlantic Against Russia
1945 – The Fourth Battle of the Atlantic, it seems, promises to be an omnidirectional—and Omni-domain—affair. Today’s seafarers have the mixed fortune to inhabit interesting times.
Theories of Naval Blockades and Their Application in the Twenty-First Century
US Naval War College Review – Technological advancements in weapon systems, platforms, and communications raise questions about the continuing relevance of blockade strategies and tactics that were developed during previous eras of naval warfare. If modern navies are using a centuries-old strategy, to what extent do the old rules still apply?
A U.S. Security Strategy For the Arctic
War on the Rocks – In order to better position the United States for geopolitical competition in the region, the Biden administration should write and publish a new national security strategy for the Arctic.
Japan-based Carrier USS Ronald Reagan Will Make Rare Middle East Patrol to Cover Afghanistan Withdrawal
USNI News – The American aircraft carrier based in Japan will make a rare deployment to U.S. Central Command to support the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan later this summer.
Russian Navy Surveillance Ship Quietly Operating Off Hawaii
USNI News – A Russian Navy surveillance ship has spent the last several days lingering off the coast of the western coast of Hawaii.
South Korea’s New CVX Aircraft Carrier Project: An Overview
Naval News – Here is everything you need to know about the CVX project ahead of MADEX 2021
Just Say No: Defining New Force Allocations for Effective Commitments
CIMSEC – When attempting to answer the question of what the U.S. military should be ready for, the responses are usually positive ones, statements of actions it should be prepared to undertake. But another possible answer is a negative one, a statement of what the U.S. should reject doing, and should choose to not be ready for. When the U.S. makes an effort to be ready for one eventuality, it is reducing its readiness to respond to others. Policymakers should consider both sides of this coin, and more consciously accept risk.
Russian Tu-22M3 Backfire Bombers Based In Syria Are Going To Patrol The Mediterranean
War Zone – In a throwback to the days of the Cold War, the Russian swing-wing bombers will fly maritime missions in NATO’s “backyard.”
Proficiency Versus Effectiveness: What Readiness is Not
CIMSEC – The U.S. Department of Defense is like an NFL franchise that, for lack of any game tape, relies solely on the athletic testing numbers to determine how ready their players are for the next game. Internal metrics of success, as the only numbers available, take on an outsized importance in predicting battlefield success. But anyone with even a small amount of military (or athletic) experience understands that there is more to winning than simply being the most proficient person on the field. A military, like a football team, has to be effective, as well.
French, Japanese And U.S. Navies Build Logistics Network In Indo-Pacific
Naval News – Combined logistics planning by the French Navy, Japan Maritime Self Defense Force and the U.S. Navy culminated in ships from each country exercising its ability to sustain each other at sea.
Russia Shows Off Tiny Fleet Of Titanium-Hulled Sierra II Attack Submarines In New Video
War Zone – The clips show the wake detection gear, escape pod, and sauna on Sierra II class submarines, and also explores force protection measures ashore.
The French Navy In The Indo-Pacific
Naval News – Interview with the Chief of Staff of the French Navy, Admiral Pierre Vandier, about the role of the Marine Nationale in the Indo-Pacific.
Moving Toward a Holistic, Rigorous, Analytical Readiness Framework
CIMSEC – The adoption of this new data framework for military readiness would go a long way toward achieving the quantitative underpinnings necessary to support the service chiefs’ vision and it can be used to fix the fundamental problem they call out: the “gold-plating” of existing force requirements at the expense of future capability.
Japan’s New “Aegis Equipped Ships”: What We Know So Far
Naval News – Japan’s Ministry of Defense (MOD) is trying to build unique ships that will specialize in ballistic missile defense (BMD) using systems originally procured for a land-based installation known as “Aegis Ashore”.
Japan’s Backwards Island Defense Strategy Against China Is A Mistake
1945 – Japan may be coming at the problem of defending its southwestern islands backward.
Inside Russia’s Trefoil military base in the Arctic
BBC – BBC Moscow correspondent Sarah Rainsford was given rare access to the Russian base, known as Arctic Trefoil.
The U.S. Role on the Global Stage
USNI Proceedings – The United States was dragged, largely against its will, into international importance. It must not walk–or be pushed–away.
The Fallacy of Presence
USNI Proceedings – Presence that is not backed up by authorization for substantive action is rarely a deterrent.
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