– Guardian – Greece has placed its military forces on high alert, recalling its naval and air force offers from holiday, as tensions with Turkey over exploration of potentially lucrative offshore energy reserves escalate in the eastern Mediterranean.
The ship of the Northern Fleet will go to Algeria
– RG – The large anti-submarine ship of the Northern Fleet “Vice-Admiral Kulakov,” which is now in the Mediterranean, will call in the port city of Algeria.
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Defense Ministry plans to build enhanced ballistic missile submarines
– Korea Herald – The Defense Ministry said Monday it plans to roll out enhanced submarines in the next five years that will be capable of carrying more ballistic missiles, as part of a long-term initiative to beef up South Korea’s military capabilities.
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Unusually Large Narco Submarine May Be New Challenge For Coast Guard
– Forbes – The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy have faced an array of so-called narco submarines, purpose built for smuggling cocaine, for the last fifteen years. These are constantly evolving. Now a super-sized narco submarine has been discovered in the Colombian jungle. It represents another evolution of the threat facing U.S. Southern Command’s (SOUTHCOM) Enhanced Counter-Narcotics Operations. The U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy, partner navies and law enforcement are determined to stop these vessels, but it is very challenging because they are designed to get through.
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20 years after Kursk, Russia moves from tragedy to redefined underwater warfare capability
– Barents Observer – Russia’s two newest special-purpose submarines, the Belgorod and the Khabarovsk, could redefine underwater warfare when they within some years sail out from the shipyard in Severodvinsk.
China Maritime Report No. 7: Gwadar: China’s Potential Strategic Strongpoint in Pakistan
– China Maritime Studies Institute – This China Maritime Report on Gwadar is the second in a series of case studies on China’s Indian Ocean “strategic strongpoints” (战略支点). People’s Republic of China (PRC) officials, military officers, and civilian analysts use the strategic strongpoint concept to describe certain strategically valuable foreign ports with terminals and commercial zones owned and operated by Chinese firms.
Watch Chinese Frogmen Fire Their Special Underwater Guns
– War Zone – Not many countries field specialist underwater firearms. Now we have a chance to see these exotic weapons in the hands of China’s naval commandos.
ROK Navy’s LPX-II Will Be An F-35B Light Aircraft Carrier – Not An LHD
– Naval News – South Korea’s 2021-2025 defense blueprint which was revealed yesterday provides some fresh details on the plans to develop an aircraft carrier capability for the Republic of Korea (RoK) Navy: The LPX-II project will be a dedicated light aircraft carrier for F-35B, it will not be an amphibious assault ship.
Countering China’s Counter-Intervention Strategy
– Strategy Bridge – The focus of this article is a crosswalk from China’s counter-intervention strategy to the U.S. response.
US Navy commissions another Littoral Combat Ship amid renewed push to fix the program
– Defense News – The U.S. Navy Saturday commissioned its latest littoral combat ship amid a top-level push to fix the ship’s nagging reliability issues and forge a path to make the small surface combatants useful in the years ahead.
European Navies Providing Disaster Relief To Beirut
– Naval News – Several European navies have deployed vessels to provide disaster relief and humanitarian assistance following the catastrophic explosion at the port of Beirut.
TikTok Is Inane. China’s Imperial Ambition Is Not.
– Bloomberg – Niall Ferguson writes that the U.S. won the Cold War by exporting its values, and China has a similar plan for Cold War II.
French Navy Vessel ‘Champlain’ To Assist With MV Wakashio Oil Spill In Mauritius
– Naval News – The French Navy D’Entrecasteaux-class multi-purpose vessel “Champlain” has been deployed to assist with pollution control efforts in Mauritius linked with the ongoing oil spill of MV Wakashio.
The Law of Military Operations and Self-Defense in the U.S.-Japan Alliance
– US Navy War College Review – While the United States and Japan share many values, their legal systems take distinct approaches to authorizing military operations. But the two approaches converge within the alliance structure—especially important with regard to implementing the international law of self-defense.
Home Office seeks military help over migrant crossings
– BBC – Defence chiefs are considering a request from the Home Office for help to deal with migrants attempting to cross the English Channel.
Winter Is Coming
– USNI Proceedings – A major test of U.S. power is coming, and the nation’s military must prepare.
Versatility Matters: How Iowa-Class Battleships Waged War from World War II to Desert Storm
– National Interest – James Holmes asks what should naval architects incorporate into a design to guarantee its longevity amid change? Versatility should be their watchword. It’s possible to experiment with versatile hulls—subtracting, adding, or recombining sensors, weapons, and embarked aircraft to keep the ship combat-relevant in a variety of circumstances.
Winning the Spectrum: Securing Command and Control For Marine Stand-In Forces
– CIMSEC – EABO and DMO are the Navy’s and Marine Corps’ bid for success in disrupting the fait accompli strategies of great power competitors, providing the deterrence by denial called for in the 2017 National Security Strategy (NSS) and 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS). In order to succeed in the A2/AD environment cultivated by America’s adversaries, EABO and DMO will necessarily be facilitated by emerging fires, ISR, and communications technologies. But the critical vulnerability to EABO, DMO, and consequently to deterrence by denial, is signature management.
Slaughter in the East China Sea
– Foreign Policy – What happens if China fights the United States and Japan? A mutual disaster, wargame predicts.
‘Despair’ spreading throughout the Military Sealift Command fleet over ‘draconian’ COVID-19 restrictions, unions warn
– Navy Times – For nearly five months, thousands of civilian mariners assigned to the Navy’s fleet of U.S. Military Sealift Command ships have been living under what are believed to be some of the strictest COVID-19 restrictions in the military. And those restrictions were dropped on them with almost no notice, according to their advocates.
Cracks in the Hull—Urgent Action Required to Ensure the U.S. Navy’s Role in Great-Power Competition
– Heritage Foundation – A strong Navy has been a bedrock of U.S. national security, as well as an assurance of American prosperity through secure trade. To ensure that this remains the case, the nation urgently needs to build, train, and sustain a Navy that can effectively compete in peacetime and win in war. Several years of scandals and dwindling preparedness have reduced the Navy’s effectiveness. The challenges confronting the nation from China and Russia are intensifying. If the Navy is left unreformed, these are challenges that the Navy will struggle to meet.
Taiwanese F-16s Begin Flying Patrols With Live Harpoon Anti-Ship Missiles To Deter China
– War Zone – Two Taiwanese F-16A Vipers have flown air patrol missions armed with live AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missiles. Taiwan’s Liberty Times said the missions were launched amid fears of imminent Chinese military exercises that are expected to be designed to simulate capture of the Taiwan-administered Dongsha Islands, in the northern area of the South China Sea.
Russia To Create Several Be-200 Amphibious Aircraft Units
– Naval News – The armed forces will receive Be-200 amphibious aircraft, as the Defense Ministry plans to create several air units. The first amphibian is operating in the 859th naval training center in Yeisk. Experts believe Be-200 can be engaged by the Navy in rescue operations and anti-submarine warfare in future.
Smoke on the Water: The Global Challenge of Shipyard Fire
– War on the Rocks – As the U.S. Navy waits for the smoke to clear onboard USS Bonhomme Richard, naval experts and sailors around the world ask the same thing: “Again?”
Brunei’s Two-Step Approach to the South China Sea
– War on the Rocks – On July 20, after a long period silence on the issue, the Brunei Darussalam Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement declaring that it “maintains its two-step approach in addressing the South China Sea.” As bland as this statement sounds, it represents a critical development in the tiny sultanate’s views on the region and a rising China.
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