– CIMSEC – The submarine force is highly capable but not near its full warfighting potential. Several factors limit submariners’ ability to prepare for safe deployments during peace and combat-effective operations during war.
Is Russia’s Planned ‘Combat Icebreaker’ a Serious Threat?
– National Interest – Despite this innovative platform, the Russian Arctic “threat” is mostly hype.
Russia’s Navy Might Be Modernizing—But It’s Overstretched
– National Interest – Why is the United States fretting to such an extent about a Russian Navy that itself admits that (on a good day) it has almost half the combat power of the U.S. Navy.
Presence Is Not Deterrence
– USNI Proceedings – Forward-deployed Navy submarines, ships, and aircraft can bring military force to bear on any potential enemy within a day’s time. But power projection alone is insufficient to prevent conflict.
Should the Navy Fear China’s ‘Streetfighter’ Ships?
– National Interest – China could be on the cusp of a deploying a new frigate design altogether—ironically one that draws substantially on a key naval architecture innovation of the American Littoral Combat Ship.
Amphibs in Sea Control and Power Projection
– USNI Proceedings – The Navy must move toward a real ‘Single Naval Battle’ concept
Is North Korea Developing the Capability to Sink U.S. Aircraft Carriers?
– National Interest – Does North Korea have an anti-ship ballistic missile capability?
The Commanders Respond
– USNI Proceedings – This year, Proceedings asked the commanders of the world’s navies, “Maintaining freedom of the seas and access to the global maritime commons requires naval partnerships, cooperation, and interoperability. What do you consider your navy ‘s greatest capability or best practice and how could other navies learn from yours?” The answers reflect the nature of each nation’s challenges at sea and the ways they partner with others to face them.
Why Russia and China’s Navies Are Drilling Together More Than Ever
– National Interest – Back to the 1950s?
Is This the Future of Russia’s Anti-Submarine Weapons?
– National Interest – Russian strategists appear to have a healthy respect for the U.S. Navy’s submarine force.
Navy Could Extend The Life Of USS Nimitz Past 50 Years To Maintain 12 Carrier Fleet
– War Zone – The House Armed Service Committee wants the Navy to figure out a way to make sure there are 12 supercarriers in the fleet going into the mid 2020s.
Japan eyes Franco-German maritime patrol aircraft requirement despite export setbacks
– Defense News – Japan is offering its Kawasaki P-1 maritime patrol aircraft for a Franco-German requirement for a new aircraft. The move is part of the island nation’s efforts to secure its first major arms sale since a self-imposed ban on arms exports following World War II was lifted four years ago.
McMaster and Commander
– New Yorker – Can a national security advisor retain his integrity if the President has none?
Rewrite the Playbook on Maritime Homeland Defense
– USNI Proceedings – With a few modest modifications, the Coast Guard’s major cutter fleet could play a greater role in defense at home and maximize Navy capacity to project power abroad.
US admiral outlines new military buildup to counter China
– Asia Times – The man nominated to run the US Pacific Command spells out his plans to contain Beijing on a number of fronts, from the oceans to space.
Navy Considering Command Ship Mission for EPFs In Western Pacific
– USNI News – The U.S. Navy’s Logistics Group Western Pacific/Task Force 73 is looking at new ways of using the Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF) ships for operations in the Indo-Pacific.
Incoming US Pacific Command chief wants to increase presence near China
– Defense News – The nominee to be the next chief of the U.S. forces in the Pacific has called for an increase in U.S. forces from all three services stationed in the vital region, adding that China is now effectively able to control the South China Sea and challenge the U.S. presence in the region.
Countering China’s Militarization of the Indo-Pacific
– War on the Rocks – Having broken Xi Jinping’s promise not to militarize Chinese man-made islands in the South China Sea and then gotten away with it, Beijing now appears poised to establish a string of bases and dual-use ports from Hainan to Djibouti. It is not too late for the maritime democracies of the “Quad” (the United States, Japan, India, and Australia) to act. First, however, they must recognize what is at stake.
Why a U.S-China War over Taiwan Won’t Be Anything Like the Syria Strikes
– National Interest – Great powers have a habit of intervening to shield weak allies from rival great powers and advance their own purposes. Last week it was Russia vowing to shoot down American missiles bound for Syrian chemical-weapon sites. Judging from recent Chinese words and deeds, next week could see the U.S. Navy attempting to repulse a Chinese assault on nearby Taiwan.
Fleet Problems Offer Opportunities
– USNI Proceedings – Looking for a way to raise the training bar and allow commanders to develop their warfighting creativity, Pacific Fleet has revived the interwar Fleet Problems.
Mutually assured detection
– The Economist – Better anti-submarine warfare will mean fewer places for subs to hide
Pacom Nominee: China Military Islands Now Control South China Sea
– Washington Free Beacon – Admiral urges rapid U.S. buildup of hypersonic and medium-range missiles to counter China threat.
US weighs keeping carrier strike group in Europe as a check on Russia
– Defense News – In a break with recent history, the U.S. military is weighing whether to withhold the Truman Carrier Strike Group from deploying to the Middle East, opting instead to keep the carrier in the Mediterranean and the European theater…the move would be a response to Russian activities in the region and aligns with the new National Defense Strategy that calls on the military to be less operationally predictable.
Advanced Gun System was holding back the Navy’s new stealth destroyer
– Defense News – Development issues with the Navy’s Advanced Gun System, destined to be one of the main armaments of DDG-1000, prompted the Navy to change Zumwalt into a ship killer, the Navy’s top requirements officers said Tuesday.
Australia won’t abandon S. China Sea patrols after encounter
– AP – Australia’s prime minister said his country has a “perfect right” to traverse the South China Sea after a media report Friday that the Chinese navy challenged three Australian warships in the hotly contested waterway.
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