– CIMSEC – A fictional short story from CIMSEC’s Fiction Week exploring national security topics through fiction.
World’s largest nuclear icebreaker starts sea trials
– Barents Observer – Painted in the Russia’s flag’s tricolor, the new «Arktika» sailed out to the Gulf of Finland on Thursday for a two-days test voyage.
Shatner
– CIMSEC – A fictional short story from CIMSEC’s Fiction Week exploring national security topics through fiction.
Navy RQ-4A Surveillance Drone Suffers Major Damage in Middle East
– USNI News – A Navy surveillance drone suffered major damage during a takeoff attempt while operating in the Middle East.
Screaming Justice
– CIMSEC – A fictional short story from CIMSEC’s Fiction Week exploring national security topics through fiction.
Chinese navy trains top guns to command expanding aircraft carrier fleet
– South China Morning Post – The Chinese navy is training fighter pilots experienced in carrier-borne operations to command and manage its warships as it seeks to expand its global naval power.
At the Moral Level
– CIMSEC – A fictional short story from CIMSEC’s Fiction Week exploring national security topics through fiction.
Trouble-hit aircraft carrier catches fire in Murmansk
– Barents Observer – The fire on “Admiral Kuznetsov” at yard No. 35 started during welding work in one of the engine rooms. The fire is not under control.
Lifeblood
– CIMSEC – A fictional short story from CIMSEC’s Fiction Week exploring national security topics through fiction.
Adm. Davidson, Indo-Pacific commander: ‘We’re not asking people to choose between us and China’
– Defense News – Adm. Philip Davidson, the head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, spoke to Defense News earlier this month in an exclusive interview during the Reagan National Defense Forum about China’s tactics and the role of the United States in supporting regional allies.
Dreams, Nightmares, and Talking Tigers
– CIMSEC – A fictional short story from CIMSEC’s Fiction Week exploring national security topics through fiction.
Acting SECNAV Modly Puts a Ten-Year Clock on Reaching 355 Ship Navy
– USNI News – Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly has made a bold call: the Navy should reach a fleet of 355 ships – both manned and unmanned – within a decade.
Congress slows the US Navy’s roll toward a robot-ship future
– Defense News – The U.S. Navy’s newfound zeal for unmanned surface vessels has been met by skepticism in Congress.
No Decision
– CIMSEC – A fictional short story from CIMSEC’s Fiction Week exploring national security topics through fiction.
No These Aren’t Starships In Space Dock, They Are Nuclear Submarines Under Construction
– War Zone – Nuclear submarines have many parallels to fictional starships, but in this case, these super high-tech vessels are made to dive down, not fly up.
From Sea to Sky
– CIMSEC – A fictional short story from CIMSEC’s Fiction Week exploring national security topics through fiction.
The Tree of Life
– CIMSEC – A fictional short story from CIMSEC’s Fiction Week exploring national security topics through fiction.
Chinese navy set to build fourth aircraft carrier, but plans for a more advanced ship are put on hold
– South China Morning Post – The Chinese navy is moving ahead with plans to build another aircraft carrier, but plans for a fifth have been put on hold for now, according to military insiders.
Russian Navy 2019: Two new submarines, 23 new surface vessels and 480 new kinds of armament
– Barents Observer – President Putin assembles his top military aides to discuss the development of the Navy and Northern Fleet.
Chinese military exploring new ways of replenishment support at sea
– Global Times – The Taihu, a military supply ship, conducted a replenishment docking with civilian container ship Fuzhou in an offshore area in mid-November amid the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) exploration of new ways to replenish ships at sea.
Navy Amphibious Warfare Ship USS Portland Spotted Heading To Sea With New Laser Turret
– War Zone – The laser represents a large leap in power output over previous systems and is hardened to operate in the harsh maritime environment.
Navy Boss Hints At A Very Different Looking Future Fleet Of Naval Combat Aircraft
– War Zone – He also talked about the possibility of deploying those manned and unmanned aircraft on ships beyond traditional aircraft carriers.
The Wind of Change: The Drift
– Defense News – David Larter says a wind of change is blowing through the Navy right now. It has to do with a new force structure assessment that’s ongoing that keen observers of the Navy believe may set the service on a very different course than the one its on. And there is no keener observer over the Navy than the Congressional Research Service’s Ron O’Rourke…
CMC Berger Wants to Retool Kit for Leaner, Lethal Marine Corps
– USNI News – Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. David Berger previewed a shift in focus for the Marine Corps soon after taking over the job this summer, with his Commandant’s Planning Guidance. Now, he’s previewing what that shift will mean for the gear the Marines use and how they spend their money, writing in an essay in War on the Rocks that the service is over-invested in gear to support traditional land wars and under-invested in naval expeditionary capabilities.
Lessons from a Training Ship
– USNI Blog – As a former surface warfare officer, now a civilian pursuing a merchant mariner license, I recently had the opportunity to serve onboard the State University of New York (SUNY) Maritime College’s training ship, the Empire State VI. I was assigned as a deck training officer and lab instructor, but I also received an immersive education in how the Merchant Marine trains its officers and operates its ships.
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