– War is Boring – The Cold War history of Japan’s unarmed ocean surveillance ships and how it relates to today.
Terrorism – Can General Linder’s Special Operations Forces Stop the Next Terrorist Threat?
– New York Times Magazine – As the fight against terrorism broadens to Africa, the United States faces a tricky balance: how to fight an enemy without actually doing the fighting.
Iraq – Why we stuck with Maliki — and lost Iraq
– Washington Post – Former state department official Ali Khedery writes that to understand why Iraq is imploding, you must understand Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki — and why the United States has supported him since 2006.
US Marines – Marine Corps Strategy Reflects Lean Times
– National Defense – Marines are coming to grips with the reality that they will not have the big-ticket hardware that they had hoped for. So they are adjusting their plans and strategies with the knowledge that they will have to live with existing equipment and lower-cost alternatives.
Royal Navy – Trident gets thumbs up in report that will dismay anti-nuclear campaigners
– The Guardian – Cross-party commission comes out in favour of keeping nuclear missile deterrent to prevent future security threats for Britain.
US Navy – ‘A New Era in Naval Warfare’
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – Information dominance will be vital in future conflicts.
US Navy – USS Bataan Enters Persian Gulf, Nine U.S. Ships Now in Region
– USNI News – In a rare concurrence of events, a carrier strike group and all three ships of a Navy Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) are in the Persian Gulf.
Chinese Navy – China Flies
– Air Force – 10 things Americans need to know about the People’s Liberation Army Air Force.
Royal Navy – Queen names new Royal Navy aircraft carrier in Rosyth
– BBC – The UK’s largest warship marks “a new phase in our naval history”, the Queen has said, as the vessel was officially named in her honour at a ceremony at Fife’s Rosyth Dockyard.
Afghanistan – After Karzai
– The Atlantic – Afghanistan’s outgoing president helped heal a shattered country. He also winked at corruption and ruled like a tribal chief. His successor will inherit a nation that’s in better shape than you might think—and a government with little power to keep it that way.
Russian Navy – Russian Sailors Arrive in France for Mistral Training
– USNI News – More than 400 Russian Navy sailors arrived in France on Monday for training to operate Russia’s two planned Mistral-class amphibious assault ships.
US Navy – Seventh Fleet tests innovative missile defense system during Pandarra Fog
– DVIDS – Seventh Fleet and the Navy Warfare Development Command tested maritime obscurant generator prototypes June 21-25 to assess their tactical effectiveness for anti-ship missile defense.
US Navy – Forbes to Pentagon: Don’t Give ‘Beijing a Veto’ on Discussion about China
– USNI News – A senior member of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) has called on the Navy and the Pentagon to have more open discussion about Chinese military capability and not grant, “Beijing a veto over what we can and cannot say.”
Philippine Navy – Aboard the Philippine Navy’s Newest Old Frigate
– Wall Street Journal – The Philippine Navy’s newest warship, BRP Ramon Alcaraz, is more like a middle-aged transfer than a fresh recruit. But newness is relative for what was until very recently Southeast Asia’s most run-down fleet, a navy rendered defunct by years of neglect and underfunding.
US Navy – How to Pass Time on an Aircraft Carrier
– New Republic – Find the places that resemble bars, play dominoes, imagine a fated connection
US Navy – Fading Solid Fuel Engine Biz Threatens Navy’s Trident Missile
– Breaking Defense – “Failure to launch” isn’t a metaphorical concern when you work on nuclear weapons. That’s why the director of the Navy’s euphemistically named Strategic Systems Program (SSP) is a worried man. What has Vice Adm. Terry Benedict worried is something neither he, nor the Navy nor the entire Defense Department directly control. It’s the viability of what Benedict called “an already fragile industry” that produces the solid-fuel rocket boosters for the Navy’s Trident submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM). The worst part is that the solid fuel rocket engine business is an industry that will live or die not on the military’s own decisions, but on NASA’s.
US Navy – Uneven burden: Some ships see time at sea surge; others fall well below fleetwide average
– Navy Times – New data shows the fleet’s underway time is out of balance, where some ships have picked up the slack for others that, for one reason or another, haven’t been out to sea as often.
US Marines – US Marine Corps Seeks Amtrac Upgrades
– Defense News – The US Marine Corps is putting a hard cap on the amount of money it wants to invest in upgrading parts of its aging fleet of AAV7A1 amphibious assault vehicles (AAVs), which the Corps wanted to retire but now plans on driving until the mid-2030s.
US Marines – Why Can’t America Build a Decent Landing Craft Any More?
– War is Boring – The Pentagon needs new sea-surface ‘connectors,’ but can’t—or won’t—develop them.
Chinese Navy – China’s Oversized Aircraft Carrier Ambitions
– The Diplomat – Reports suggest China will have an indigenous carrier battle group within three years. Don’t bet on it.
US Marines – Special Forces conduct naval training as Army emphasizes amphibious mission
– Marine Corps Times – A mobile Army could encroach on Marine turf – with sailors in the middle.
Chinese Navy – China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities—Background and Issues for Congress
– Congressional Research Service – Ronald O’Rourke’s latest analysis of the Chinese Navy.
Royal Navy – Royal Navy investigates mystery Russian warship in Baltic
– Royal Navy – Royal Navy investigates mystery Russian warship in Baltic – HMS Montrose tracked the Russian corvette Soobrazitelny and then was circled by a Russian patrol plane.
Fourth Generation Warfare – Unwinnable Wars
– C-SPAN – William Lind gives a 15 minute talk summarizing a defensive grand strategy for the U.S. against 4th Generation opponents.
US Marines – Marines press attack amid drawdown
– San Diego Union Tribune – Taliban fighters in remote villages of Helmand province who thought coalition troops would wait out the end of their campaign from the relative safety of regional headquarters got a wake-up call last month. The Twentynine Palms-based infantry unit serving as a regional security force launched a series of attacks targeting insurgent havens in outlying areas.
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