– The Atlantic – The U.S. government is surreptitiously collecting the DNA of world leaders, and is reportedly protecting that of Barack Obama. Decoded, these genetic blueprints could provide compromising information. In the not-too-distant future, they may provide something more as well—the basis for the creation of personalized bioweapons that could take down a president and leave no trace.
Miscellaneous – Aircraft Carriers in Space
– Foreign Policy – Naval analyst Chris Weuve talks to Foreign Policy about what Battlestar Galactica gets right about space warfare.
US Navy – Between Peace and the Air-Sea Battle
– US Naval War College Review – A War at Sea strategy.
Russian Navy – Russian warships head toward Syria
– Los Angeles Times – A group of Russian warships was en route to the Mediterranean Sea on Tuesday with the possible mission to evacuate citizens of their nation from Syria, the Russian news agency Interfax reported Tuesday.
Geopolitics – Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds
– National Intelligence Council – A fascinating prediction of what the US intelligence community thinks the world will look like in 2030. If you can’t read the whole report, try the Executive Summary.
US Navy – Imminent Domain
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – Future conflicts will be won in a new arena—that of the electromagnetic spectrum and cyberspace. We must merge, then master those realms.
Geopolitics / Australia – Rising Up Down Under
– Air Force – The US and Australia are bolstering their close but quiet military relationship.
US Navy – Offshore Control is the Answer
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – Colonel T. X. Hammes writes that in the highly unlikely event of conflict with China, the United States needs a strategy that plays to its strengths, minimizes the risks of nuclear escalation, and limits physical destruction.
Iraq – General Principles
– New Yorker – Dexter Filkins provides a considered answer to the question of how good was General Petraeus?
Chinese Navy – China upset at being called out for reverse engineering Su-33
– Flight – China is upset at being called out for reverse engineering the Shenyang J-15 carrier-based fighter from the Russian Sukhoi Su-33 Flanker. The Chinese argue in the People’s Daily–a state media organization–that the J-15 is more advanced than the Su-33.
US Navy – Redeeming Freedom: U.S. Navy Seeks to Renew Faith in LCS Fleet
– Aviation Week – This is a story about the Navy’s desire to rebrand and restore the reputation of what is arguably its most important surface-vessel program, which has faced mounting doubts and criticism, especially in the halls of Congress. As part of that effort, Aviation Week was granted exclusive interviews with top Navy officials and unique access to the Freedom, its officers and crew during the first days of November’s certification exercises.
US Marine Corps – USMC: Under-utilized Superfluous Military Capability
– Time – Doug Macgregor takes on the USMC.
US Navy – Navy Will Have to Wait Before Amassing Its Robo-Copter Fleet
– Wired – The Navy talks about its drone helicopter the way Apple geeks gushed over the first-generation iPhone in 2007. The MQ-8 Fire Scout does it all, from hunting for drugs at sea to spotting insurgents over the battlefields of Afghanistan. But like that early iPhone, the Fire Scout is seriously buggy — so much so that the Defense Department has conceded it will be forced to seriously delay buying all the robocopters it wants.
US Navy – Navy Bets On 'Baby Steps' To Improve Electronic Warfare; F-35 Jamming Not Enough
– AOL Defense – While the Air Force and the Marines stake their future on a great leap forward to the stealthy F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the Navy is taking what one officer called “baby steps” into the future: a careful, incremental upgrade of electronic warfare systems to jam enemy radar instead of just hiding from it.
US Navy – Business As Usual Inside Obama’s Pentagon
– Time – Chuck Spinney on the future of the US Navy.
US Navy – Is the Fleet Steaming Forward…Or Backward?
– Time – Winslow Wheeler on the future of the US Navy – Part 3.
US Navy – US moves warships to track North Korea rocket launch
– BBC – The US is moving navy ships into position to track a North Korean rocket due to launch later this month.
US Navy – More Than The Navy's Numbers Could Be Sinking
– Time – Winslow Wheeler on the future of the US Navy – Part 2.
US Navy – If More Money Buys A Smaller Fleet What Will Less Money Buy?
– Time – Winslow Wheeler looks at the future of the US Navy – Part 1.
Royal Navy – Britain's new Navy carriers will sail without crucial radar technology for five years
– Daily Mail – The Royal Navy’s ageing Sea King helicopters, which currently provide the fleet’s Airborne Early Warning (AEW) system, will be retired in 2016. And their multi-million-pound replacements could be delayed until 2022 – leaving HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales without aerial coverage as sailors test out the huge vessels.
US Navy – America's next carrier will be named Enterprise
– Virginian Pilot – The mammoth ship that projected American power during the tensest moment of the Cold War, and decades later launched some of the first air attacks in the war on terror, no longer is in service. But its remarkable legacy – and its iconic name – will live on.
US Marines – Commandant sets Marines on new course
– San Diego Union Tribune – Q and A with Gen. James Amos on the future of the Corps.
US Navy – X-47B UCAS-D – Off the Cat, On the Deck
– Aviation Week – In the same week, Northrop Grumman’s X-47B combat aircraft system demonstrator has arrived on the aircraft carrier deck — by crane — and made its first catapult launch — on land
Geopolitics – Turning Points
– New York Times – Niall Ferguson reminds us that history does not turn on a dime…
Chinese Navy – China Aircraft Carrier Style! Assessing the First Takeoff and Landing
– Wall Street Journal – Two months after China’s first aircraft carrier Liaoning was commissioned, and a year and a half after it began sea trials, an Chinese J-15 fighter became the first known fixed wing aircraft to take off from and land on it…Once again, China has exceeded the expectations of many foreign observers regarding timelines for military capabilities development, though the tremendous publicity the event has received could limit the country’s ability to move with such speed in developing its aircraft carrier going forward.
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