– USNI News – Frustrations are mounting in Congress over the limited insight lawmakers and the public have into the Navy’s future fleet, and the service now faces fiscal consequences in upcoming defense bills.
Marines Considering Adding Land-Based Hypersonic Weapons to Arsenal
– USNI News – The Marine Corps is in talks with the Pentagon’s research and development community over how a land-based hypersonic weapon could be incorporated into the smallest service’s quick-maneuver concept.
Blue Books For the Green Side: A Reading List on Naval Integration
– CIMSEC – We have assembled a short reading list focused along the theme of naval integration…
In War, Chinese Shipyards Could Outpace US in Replacing Losses; Marine Commandant
– Breaking Defense – “Replacing ships lost in combat will be problematic,” Marine Commandant Gen. David Berger writes in a forthcoming paper. “Our industrial base has shrunk while peer adversaries have expanded their shipbuilding capacity. In an extended conflict, the United States will be on the losing end of a production race.”
Why is Turkey the key to unlocking a NATO-EU naval operation?
– Defense News – Turkey is hindering European Union attempts to secure NATO’s help with a maritime arms embargo on conflict-torn Libya, according to diplomats and officials in Brussels.
Exploring China’s Unmanned Ocean Network
– Center for Strategic and International Studies – China has deployed a network of sensors and communications capabilities between Hainan Island and the Paracel Islands in the northern South China Sea. These capabilities are part of a “Blue Ocean Information Network” (蓝海信息网络) developed by China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC), a state-owned company, to aid in the exploration and control of the maritime environment using information technology. The network constructed in the northern South China Sea between early 2016 and 2019 is referred to as a demonstration system. However, future plans for the Blue Ocean Information Network involve expanding the sensor and communications network to the rest of the South China Sea, the East China Sea, and other ocean areas far from Chinese territory. While the Blue Ocean Information Network is largely cast as an environmental monitoring and communications system, the military utility of its sensing and communications functions makes its development important to monitor.
Nukes, Nubs And Coners: The Unique Social Hierarchy Aboard A Nuclear Submarine
– War Zone – Getting assigned to your first sub doesn’t make you a submariner and once you become one you’ll find yourself in a social structure unlike any other.
Nuclear submarine missile cruiser “Prince Vladimir” commissioned by the Russian Navy
– BMPD – On June 12, 2020, in Severodvinsk, the Northern Machine-Building Enterprise Production Association JSC (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation JSC – USC) hosted the ceremony of hoisting the Russian Navy’s flag on the strategic nuclear-powered submarine missile cruiser K-549 “ Prince Vladimir ” project 09552 (955A; code” Borey-A “).(In Russian)
(Thanks to Alain)
Italy considering sale of two FREMM frigates to Egypt
– Defence Web – Italy is considering the sale of two FREMM frigates to Egypt.
(Thanks to Alain)
Why Yemen Matters
– CIMSEC – While it is not practical, nor advisable, for the United States to commit blood and treasure to unilaterally resolve Yemen’s civil war, the instability that spills over Yemen’s borders threatens American interests.
Japan Backing Away From Aegis Ashore
– USNI News – Japan is backing away from installing two Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defense (BMD) systems in the country over technical concerns.
U.S. Navy SSBN USS Maryland Conducts Full At-Sea Crew Exchange
– Naval News – Last week, the U.S. Navy Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) USS Maryland conducted a full at-sea crew exchange to prevent sailors from possible COVID-19 exposure. At-sea crew transfer is quite unusual. Transfer of the entire crew of a submarine is even more exceptional.
100,000 Tons of Inertia
– USNI Proceedings – If the day ever comes when the Navy decides it should stop building aircraft carriers, will it be able to?
The Geopolitics of Alaska
– National Interest – James Holmes writes that Alaska is much in the news during this incipient age of great-power strategic competition. Almost daily, it seems, U.S. Air Force fighter jets scramble to intercept lumbering Russian bombers approaching North American airspace to the extreme northwest. That means our thinking about Alaska needs to change.
Angry Trident
– Atlantic Council – What if Norway was under threat from a dynamic and unconventional Russian incursion designed to redraw the borders on NATO’s northern flank? FICINT by August Cole.
Reimagine the ARG/MEU Team
– USNI Proceedings – Elevating aviation assets, simplifying command relationships, and narrowing mission focus will keep amphibious operations relevant.
Underbelly
– Modern War Institute – This FICINT short story by August Cole explores what war in Europe against an increasingly aggressive Russia might look like with a dramatically reduced US commitment to NATO.
A Modern Deterrence Theory Case Study: America’s Failure to Deter Japan
– The Strategy Bridge – Everything old is new again. The world is gripped by a pandemic, people believe the Earth is flat, and the United States is trying to suppress the appetite of an expansionist Asian superpower. While China’s rise is undoubtedly less savage than Japan’s conquest of Southeast Asia, the feeling that America has been here before seems unshakeable. Analyzing the U.S. failure to deter Japan from conquering Southeast Asia using a modern deterrence theory framework reveals opportunities to improve contemporary deterrence strategies.
Arctic Night
– Norwegian Army – This FICINT short story by August Cole explores what war in the Arctic against an increasingly aggressive Russia might look like.
China’s Marine Corps Is on the Rise
– USNI Proceedings – China is pursuing global power projection capabilities. The U.S. Navy–Marine Corps team must prepare to confront the threat head-on.
Omega
– Atlantic Council – This short FICINT story from August Cole describes a hypothetical future war in Europe between Russian and NATO forces using advanced technology.
If the US Navy isn’t careful, its new unmanned tanker drone could face a 3-year delay
– Defense News – The US Navy could face a three-year delay in testing of the MQ-25 Stingray carrier-based tanking drone if it doesn’t get its designated test ships through the required modernizations on time, a possibility the Navy said was remote.
Does Tomorrow Ever Truly Die?
– CIMSEC – In a time when people are more interconnected than ever, the power of information is paramount.
Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations and Mine Warfare in Littoral Control
– CIMSEC – In reviewing the proposed EABO operations, many different capabilities are mentioned, but one, naval mines, are given scant attention, and to the point of being almost completely ignored.
BALTOPS 2020 Will Only Hold At-Sea Events With Ships Commanded from Shore
– USNI News – The Navy and its NATO allies and partners are underway for the 49th iteration of the Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) exercise – which this year will focus on naval warfare at sea, partly by design and partly in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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