– Defense News – The Justice Department has filed corruption charges against the head of a Busan, Korea,-based husbanding services provider in a case with unmistakable echoes of the Fat Leonard scandal that has rocked the Navy since the investigation was revealed in 2013.
The Army Abruptly Pulls Ship Auction Listings And Halts Plans To Slash Its Naval Fleet
– War Zone – The service had controversially planned to sell off dozens of ships and other watercraft, inactivating multiple units in the process.
Sacred Cows Die As Marine Commandant Changes Course On Amphibs
– Breaking Defense – “It would be illogical to continue to concentrate our forces on a few large ships,” the new USMC Commandant writes in his new guidance, setting decades of planning on its head. So what’s next?
Iran tanker seizure: UK warship HMS Duncan arrives in Gulf
– BBC – A second Royal Navy warship has arrived in the Gulf to protect British ships amid heightened tensions in the region.
How geopolitics make the U.S. Navy’s plans for major Arctic operations so complicated
– Arctic Today – The U.S. Navy will conduct some kind of Arctic operations this summer — but it hasn’t said exactly what. Every option comes with potential issues.
Here’s Why Naval Convoys Are An Ideal Solution Hated By Everyone
– War Zone – As Iran threatens commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, many are calling for convoys. Here is why they aren’t so easy to execute or maintain.
How the U.S. Could Lose a War With China
– The Atlantic – It’s not that the Chinese Communist Party would take over Washington. But in its own region, China has the advantage.
Marines Reach 2011 Goal of 2,500 in Darwin, With Addition of HIMARS Platoon, More to Current Rotation
– USNI News – The deployment of a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) platoon to Australia has helped the Marine Corps reach the 2,500-Marine presence in Darwin that U.S. and Australian leaders promised in 2011.
In a naval confrontation with Iran, Great Britain can find neither ships nor friends
– Defense News – The U.K. has the responsibility to protect its own ships, but doesn’t have the Navy it needs to do it.
U.S. Will Provide Intel to Allies to Keep Middle East Merchant Ships Safe, Not Warship Escorts
– USNI News – American forces are willing to provide allies with intelligence on potential maritime threats in the Middle East, but countries will need to bring their own escorts.
Cutter Bertholf’s Indo-Pac Deployment Highlighted Coast Guard’s National Security Role
– USNI News – On its recent Indo-Pacific patrols, the Coast Guard cutter USCGC Bertholf (WSML-750) thwarted illegal oil and coal shipments that violated of U.N. Security Council sanctions against North Korea, transited the Strait of Taiwan amid condemnation from China and worked with U.S. allies to bolster their own coast guard forces.
Coast Guard Expanding Western Pacific Operations
– USNI News – The U.S. Coast Guard will increase its presence and deployments to Asia – particularly around Oceania and U.S. Pacific territories – and test out a new operational deployment concept in the region.
U.S. Sides With Vietnam in Maritime Dispute With China
– Washington Free Beacon – State Department warns Chinese to end ‘bullying’ toward oil and gas search.
North Korea’s New Ballistic Missile Submarine Is A Refurbished Antique
– War Zone – The boat is based on a dated 1950s Soviet design, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a significant development.
Faulty battery may have sparked Russian submarine fire
– Guardian – A malfunctioning lithium-ion battery may have sparked a deadly fire on a top-secret Russian nuclear submersible earlier this month that killed 14 naval officers.
Cambodia Denies Report Of Deal With China For Use Of Naval Base
– NPR – Cambodia’s prime minister has denounced as “fake news” a report in The Wall Street Journal that his country had signed a secret deal to allow Chinese warships to use a naval base in the Gulf of Thailand.
South Korea to build ship for short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing aircraft
– Defense News – South Korea is to launch a new version of a large-deck landing ship from which short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing aircraft can operate by the late 2020s, amid naval buildups in China and Japan.
Corvette Carriers: A New Littoral Warfare Strategy
– USNI Proceedings – With the renewal of great power competition, the Navy–Marine Corps team must employ ships that can threaten adversaries in their home waters.
‘Ulcer’ Strategy: How Iran Can Wage War Against America On the Cheap
– National Interest – How Iran could channel an old British strategy against Napoleon to fight U.S. forces in the Middle East.
Marines Took Out Iranian Drone for the Cost of a Tank of Gas
– USNI News – Instead of a using an almost-million-dollar Navy missile, Marines splashed a hostile Iranian drone on Thursday for about the cost of a couple of gallons of gas.
PACOM: China Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile Tests a Signal to US, World
– Washington Free Beacon – China recently conducted the first test of a new anti-ship ballistic missile, firing a salvo of six missiles into the South China Sea in a threatening message to the United States, the commander of the Indo-Pacific Command said Thursday.
New Commandant Berger Sheds 38-Amphib Requirement in Quest to Modernize USMC for High-End Fight
– USNI News – New Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. David Berger outlined his largely naval priorities for the Marine Corps, and he’s willing to shed some key tenets of the Marines’ amphibious force planning in recent years – including the demand for 38 amphibious warships to support a 2 Marine Expeditionary Brigade-sized forcible entry force.
Iran ‘seizes British-flagged oil tanker’
– BBC – A British-flagged oil tanker has been seized in the Gulf by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Iran media say.
US Expands Icelandic Airfield For Tankers, Big Cargo Lift
– Breaking Defense – An old Cold War base in Iceland has seen over $80 million in US investments in recent years as the Pentagon flies more surveillance missions in the high north — and plans to do more.
Here’s What We Know About The Missing Tanker Iran Now Says It Has Seized
– War Zone – The Iranians initially said the ship had broken down and had asked for assistance, but now claim it was involved in smuggling fuel.
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