– Sky News – RFA Mounts Bay is providing humanitarian assistance in the Bahamas.
The State of LCS: Navy Moving to Add Firepower, Capability to Both Classes
– USNI News – With both variants of the Littoral Combat Ship in serial production at two yards and those ships now kicking off an enduring multi-ship overseas presence, the Navy is turning its focus to increasing the lethality and survivability of the hulls.
Marine Boss’s Audacious Plan To Transform The Corps By Giving Up Big Amphibious Ships
– War Zone – The bold vision of a USMC that is far less dependent on the lumbering “Gator Navy” comes with a sacrificial offering of the force’s most sacred cow.
The State of LCS: Navy Pushing More Ships to Sea This Fall as Class Matures
– USNI News – Five years from now, there may be as many Littoral Combat Ships deployed as there are destroyers.
The U.S. Navy just deployed its new ship-killer missile to China’s backyard
– Defense News – It can travel more than 100 nautical miles, passively detect an enemy through imaging stored in its computer brain, and can kill a target so precisely that an operator can tell it to aim for a specific point on the ship – the engine room or the bridge, for example. And it’s heading to China’s stomping grounds.
Navy Wants to Make Surface Fleet Training Harder with More Live, Virtual Opposing Forces and Ranges
– USNI News – As the Navy continues to inject more live, virtual and constructive events to prepare ships’ crews to defeat potential threats, surface warfare training officials are looking to add more realistic adversaries and tougher scenarios via virtual training.
The Commandant’s Planning Guidance, Part II
– Traditional Right – The new Marine Corps Commandant, General David H. Berger, has issued his Planning Guidance, which gives his commander’s intent for the next four years. As I wrote in my last column, it is a positive, even exciting, document that offers hope the Marine Corps can reshape itself to do what its doctrine of maneuver warfare requires. That said, it also raises questions in several important respects.
It’s Time to Talk About A2/AD: Rethinking the Russian Military Challenge
– War on the Rocks – America’s strategy community has a problem that it likes to call “A2/AD,” and while the symptoms are very real, in the case of Russia strategists and planners have largely misdiagnosed the nature of the challenge.
USS Wasp Heading to U.S. in Homeport Shift; USS America Goes to Japan Later This Year
– USNI News – After less than two years forward-deployed, big deck amphib USS Wasp (LHD-1) has left Japan.
Surface Forces Striving for ‘Combat-Ready Ships, Battle-Minded Crews’
– USNI News – The head of the Navy’s surface force is pushing the fleet to be more ready for high-end combat, both in the skills of the crew and the material condition of the ships.
The Fleet Problem Exercises: An Investment in the Future
– CIMSEC – Innovation and experimentation are never free and rarely cheap, but the Fleet Problems of the Interwar Navy offer a successful case study of how to go to sea to prepare for war even with limited resources.
Why the Senkaku / Diaoyu Islands are Like a Toothpaste Tube
– War on the Rocks – Consisting of five core islands and several minor features in the East China Sea, the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands (Japan calls them Senkakushotō, while the China uses the name Diaoyudao) are not much in terms of size — the biggest is only a bit larger than New York City’s Central Park. But they loom large as a potential cause of armed conflict — if not war – between the region’s major powers.
Undersea Surveillance: Supplementing the ASEAN Indo-Pacific Outlook
– CIMSEC – Successful tracking foreign submarines would make the ASEAN Outlook more valid in the Indo-Pacific geostrategic landscape.
AI Will Change War, But Not in the Way You Thing
– War on the Rocks – AI is sure to permeate every aspect of warfighting — from movement to communication, logistics, intelligence, weapons, and people. Delivering these warfare-changing technologies to the frontlines and into American hands will depend on less glamorous activities — namely, expediting the procurement process to more quickly field AI, and securing supply chains by collaborating with U.S. companies.
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The New Commandant’s Planning Guidance
– Traditional Right – The new Marine Corps Commandant, General David H. Berger, recently issued his Planning Guidance, a document which states his commander’s intent and sets the direction the Marine Corps will take over the next four years. In this case, it is a remarkable statement which, if turned into effective action, could finally transform the Marine Corps into a military that can do maneuver warfare instead of just talk about it.
World War II Teaches Us How World War III Could Happen (And Would Be Hell)
– National Interest – Bottom line, there’s a whiff of the 1930s in the air in East Asia today.
China Studies the Contours of the Gray Zone
– National Interest – Beijing strategists go to school on Russian tactics in the Black Sea.
USS Harry S. Truman Suffers Major Electrical Malfunction, Raising Questions About Upcoming Deployment
– USNI News – Aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) is experiencing a malfunction of the ship’s electrical distribution system ahead of an expected deployment this fall.
F-35s Obsolete? Russia Has Lots of Thoughts on the Future of Aircraft Carriers
– National Interest – Carrier advocates will often make the dubious claim that a couple of missiles or even a torpedo could not actually sink these hulking ships. Perhaps not, but please try to imagine the armada that would have to be assembled to rescue a disabled ship of this stature.
Shadowy New Electronic Warfare System Has Been Installed On U.S. Navy 7th Fleet Ships
– War Zone – The mysterious modular system with a peculiar past is designated AN/SLQ-59 and has been quietly deployed on Asia-based U.S. surface combatants.
Here’s What Russia Thinks About the Future of America’s Aircraft Carriers
– National Interest – Envious but also dubious.
Love, Carl
– War on the Rocks – This short story was submitted in response to the call for ideas issued by the co-chairs of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, Eric Schmidt and Robert Work. It addresses the first question (part b.) which asks authors to consider what might happen if the United States fails to develop robust AI capabilities that address national security issues.
SecDef & Marines Want To Disperse Across Pacific, But It’s Hard
– Breaking Defense – Concerns over a new Okinawa airfield, and how to get Marines across vast swaths of ocean, are complicating American plans to spread forces across the Pacific.
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