– CNAS – Minding the GIUK Gap.
In a Chess Game with Putin, the Polish City of Gdansk Is Our Queen
– National Review – When Russia invades the Baltic, Gdansk will be the key to NATO’s response.
How the heroin trade explains the US-UK failure in Afghanistan
– The Guardian – After 16 years and $1tn spent, there is no end to the fighting – but western intervention has resulted in Afghanistan becoming the world’s first true narco-state.
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Onboard USS Mobile Bay: Why the aging cruiser may be worth saving
– Defense News – The fact that USS Mobile Bay at 30 is one of the most advanced ships in the fleet speaks volumes about the care the Navy puts into its ships, but the good times are only going to last for so long. Mobile Bay is rapidly approaching its 35-year service life and it needs work.
US ‘Not Prepared’ For Electronic Warfare Vs. Russia, China
– Breaking Defense – The US military is “not prepared” to conduct radio and radar jamming against high-end adversaries, a veteran electronic warfare officer now in Congress says.
Here are the top issues facing the US surface fleet in 2018
US Navy’s top surface warfare officer on collisions, LCS and warfare
– Defense News – Defense News sat down with the Navy’s top surface warfare officer, Vice Adm. Thomas Rowden, at his Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet headquarters in San Diego, California, to discuss the past year and look ahead to 2018.
Pakistan test-fires indigenous anti-ship missile
– Defense News – Pakistan has announced a successful test of its indigenous anti-ship missile, which appears to be a variant of the Babur land-attack cruise missile family.
Doubts linger as US Navy preps to order 10 more Flight III destroyers
– Defense News – Both Huntington Ingalls Industries and Bath Iron Works have signed on to build Flight III DDGs — DDG 125 will be the first one, built at Ingalls in Mississippi, followed by DDG 126 at Bath Iron Works — but questions linger about whether entering into a multiyear contract on what is almost a new class of ship invites delays and cost overruns.
2018 Forecast: Can the Navy Say No?
– Breaking Defense – In 2017, the Navy and Marine Corps hit the wall, with an string of deadly accidents on the sea and in the air. In 2018, we’ll see whether the overstressed sea services start saying “no” to missions.
Houthi Forces Capture U.S. Navy Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Off Yemen
– USNI News – Houthi forces have captured a U.S. Navy research unmanned underwater vehicle off the coast of Yemen.
MantaDroid could be the wet, electric, flapping robotic sea scout of the future
– Defense News – The manta is a fascinating creature, and so it should come as no surprise that the manta also makes a fascinating body for an underwater robot.
Banned Fuel Trade With North Korea Increases Need to Monitor Maritime Traffic
– USNI News – With tougher United Nations sanctions now restricting the flow of oil to North Korea, the regime is taking more extreme measures to evade international scrutiny, making monitoring regional maritime traffic an even more pressing mission for U.S. intelligence and naval forces.
India’s First Ballistic Missile Sub Sidelined For Nearly A Year Following Mishap
– War Zone – The country’s plans to modernize its submarine force have hit some obstacles, but in a decade the fleet will likely look nothing like it does today.
Russia Says January 5th Attack On Its Syrian Air Base Was By A Swarm Of Drones
– War Zone – It seems that the age of drone swarms has arrived, and that’s a terrifying reality to comprehend.
Does the US Navy have a strategy beyond hope?
– Defense News – Chris Cavas opines that the U.S. Navy begins the new year in crisis. By its own admission many of its ships and aircraft are in poor condition. Training is not where it should be, its ships can’t maneuver properly around other ships, and Navy leaders for years have complained the service is overstretched, constantly struggling to meet requirements and falling short in any number of areas. It is by no means clear that new ideas and concepts are being implemented to counter ever-growing military rivals.
Libyan navy rescues 272 migrants from stranded boats
– AP – Libya’s navy says it has rescued 272 migrants whose vessels were stranded in the Mediterranean Sea as they tried to reach southern Europe.
Fighting Forward to Ensure Littoral Access
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – The defense has the advantage in amphibious operations. Marines will require small, swift, stealthy, and survivable platforms and units to access, persist, fight, and win in littoral environments.
3 Strategic Takeaways from the Guadalcanal Campaign
– National Interest – Americans involved with the Guadalcanal campaign formulated Maoist-sounding ideas for holding the Solomons—and that’s how they won.
The United States Needs Mobile Afloat Basing
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – With threats to access growing, the Navy cannot continue to depend on overseas facilities for maintenance and resupply. Adapting a modern version of the 1945 fleet train would re-establish the distinctly U.S. solution for naval maneuver warfare.
Great Red Fleet: How China Was Inspired by Teddy Roosevelt
– National Interest – China is looking to the United States’ early naval experiences for inspiration.
Sheffield’s Ghost Provides Lessons
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – Analysis of the Falklands Campaign was a substantial section of the Joint Professional Military Education Phase I curriculum of the 1990s. It was even part of the Phase II course of instruction a decade later. Rather than the resounding and brilliant British victory portrayed in the limited 1982 news cycle, decades of independent analysis after the campaign have shown that the British forces were unprepared for the full range of Argentine military responses.
Groupthink Makes Navies Stupid
– National Interest – Want an intellectually inert U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard? Fine: stifle the free interplay of ideas and views on campus, and within the sea.
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