– US Naval War College Review – Air and aerospace power has been fundamental for defending China’s “near seas”-encompassing the Bohai Gulf, the Yellow Sea, and the East and South China Seas—since the founding of the People’s Republic.
Geopolitics – Now Hear This the US Senate Should Ratify the UNCLOS
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – The first draft of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) was completed in 1982. The treaty provided a broad legal framework governing movement on the sea and the proper handling of sea-based resources. By 1994, treaty revisions had alleviated U.S. concerns regarding deep seabed mining. President Bill Clinton signed and forwarded it to the Senate for advice and consent, but it was never ratified.
US Navy – Building on a 200 Year Legacy
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – Three bedrock lessons from the War of 1812 remain the basis for U.S. Navy operations in the 21st century.
US Navy – The Aegis BMD Global Enterprise: A "High End" Maritime Partnership
– US Naval War College Review – For more than three decades, beginning soon after the end of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union faced off against each other. The concept of “mutual assured destruction”-MAD, the U.S. threat of massive retaliation to a Soviet first strike-became America’s Cold War de facto strategic defense policy. In March 1983, however, President Ronald Reagan asked whether ballistic missiles could be destroyed before they reached the United States or its allies, thus catalyzing efforts for a national ballistic-missile-defense program that would undermine the need for MAD. That same year, the U.S. Navy commissioned USS Ticonderoga (CG 47), the first of what is to become a fleet of more than eighty Aegis warships. In 2012, these trends have converged, and Aegis ballistic-missile defense (BMD) is an increasingly important component of a robust national BMD System (BMDS).
Royal Navy – Still Relevant After All These Years
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – It may be the stuff of three-decades-old history, but the Falklands conflict offers warfighting lessons of distinct importance to the U.S. Navy of today.
US Navy – The Coming Naval Century
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – The Secretary of the Navy says that the Navy and Marine Corps will be the long arm of a National Fleet central to U.S. military power.
US Navy – The New Normalcy: Sea Power and Contingency Operations in the Twenty-First Century
– US Naval War College Review – In September 1994, the Caribbean nation of Haiti burst into political unrest that drove twenty-six thousand migrants out to sea on board overcrowded and unseaworthy craft in an unprecedented mass migration to the United States. Several months later, over thirty thousand Cubans followed suit, attempting to reach the mainland on literally anything that could float. On 31 August 2005, a “weapon of mass destruction” in the form of a category-five hurricane exploded in the Gulf coast city of New Orleans, killing over 1,300 citizens and forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands. Finally, on 20 April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon exploratory oil rig exploded, heralding an unprecedented environmental disaster whose final impact has yet to be determined. What these events shared, with their catastrophic nature and international impact, was a link to the sea. Although vastly different in cause, circumstances, and scope—ranging as they did from a man-made political event to recovery from the wrath of nature—these crises all saw a significant application of sea power in reaction and recovery operations.
Chinese Navy – Storm Warnings?
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – The buildup of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has caused quite a stir with the United States and its allies over the past few years. But China hardly has us over a barrel.
US Navy – Asymmetric Warfare, American Style
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – Let’s just say it: AirSea Battle in East Asia is about China. Foreclosing its options is perhaps the surest way to deter aggression.
US Navy – A SEA Change
– Air Force – The US military is refocusing its attention on the threats and opportunities in Southeast Asia, a region often overlooked in the last decade.
Iranian Navy – Iran bolsters retaliation capability in gulf, experts say
– Washington Post – Iran is rapidly gaining new capabilities to strike at U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf, amassing an arsenal of sophisticated anti-ship missiles while expanding its fleet of fast-attack boats and submarines, U.S. and Middle Eastern analysts say.
US Navy – Cloud Combat: Thinking Machines in Future Wars
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – The divisions between men and machines are crumbling, leading to an autonomous mechanized force.
US Navy – Payloads over Platforms: Charting a New Course
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – The Chief of Naval Operations says we need to move from ‘luxury-car’ platforms-with their built-in capabilities-toward dependable ‘trucks’ that can handle a changing payload selection. Is this the beginning of the end of the F-35 in the US Navy?
US Navy – Trucks, not limos
– The Economist – An American admiral calls for new military thinking and questions stealth technology.
US Marines – US Osprey aircraft arrive in Japan amid protests
– Associated Press – A shipload of MV-22 Ospreys arrived in Japan on Monday amid protests over safety issues that have aggravated longstanding grassroots concern over the presence of American bases in the country.
US Navy – Marines see calm in once-violent Afghan area
– San Diego Union Tribune – Much has changed in Sangin since the spring of 2011. The Camp Pendleton unit then deployed to the area, the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, suffered more casualties during its seven-month tour to Sangin than any unit of the entire war.
US Navy – In the Pacific, new interest in war games
– San Diego Union Tribune – The point of the Rim of the Pacific exercises every two years: to practice major naval maneuvers. As the Pentagon shifts its focus to the Pacific after 11 years of desert warfare, the number of nations attracted to these month-long international maritime war games has exploded. Twenty-two countries – notably Russia for the first time – paid their own way to Hawaii, even a 21-man contingent of Marines from tiny Tonga and a platoon of Malaysian army rangers. Two years ago the list was 14 nations long, and in 2008 there were 10.
US Navy – LCS: Quick Swap Concept Dead
– Defense News – The original idea for the littoral combat ship (LCS) envisioned modular mission packages that could be rapidly swapped, so one ship could change missions easily from mine warfare, for example, to anti-submarine warfare over the course of a single deployment. But instead of taking just days to make the switch, it’s now apparent it could take weeks. An LCS assigned to a particular operation will likely operate in a single “come-as-you-are” configuration, requiring additional ships equipped with other mission modules to provide the flexibility the concept once promised.
Chinese Navy – China caught red handed in the South China Sea
– Foreign Policy – Chinese officials were caught Friday with their pants down when the Defense Ministry was forced to admit in a brief statement that a naval frigate has run aground on the south eastern edge of the Spratly Islands– waters the Philippine government claims exclusive sovereignty over. Though Chinese officials described the vessels as a part of a “routine patrol,” the incident comes barely two weeks after the Philippine navy openly accused China of ignoring a June agreement to withdraw all ships from the Scarborough Shoal.
Piracy – World sea piracy falls in first 6 months of 2012
– Associated Press – Sea piracy worldwide fell by 54 percent in the first half of 2012, led by a dramatic drop in Somali piracy, an international maritime watchdog said Monday.
Dutch Navy – Yo Ho Rotterdam!
– Aviation Week – The Royal Netherlands Navy (RNN) landing platform dock Hr. Ms. Rotterdam left its home port of Den Helder yesterday to participate in NATO’s Operation Ocean Shield counterpiracy mission off the coast of Somalia.
Chinese Navy – China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities—Background and Issues for Congress
– Congressional Research Service – An excellent analysis of the current and future state of the Chinese Navy.
Afghanistan – After America
– New Yorker – Dexter Filkins asks will civil war hit Afghanistan when the U.S. leaves?
US Navy – Floating Base Gives U.S. New Footing in the Persian Gulf
– New York Times – One of the Navy’s oldest transport ships, now converted into one of its newest platforms for warfare, arrived in waters off Bahrain late last week, a major addition to the enlarged presence of American forces in the Persian Gulf designed as a counter to Iran.
Air Warfare – The Drone Zone
– New York Times Magazine – At a desert facility, Air Force pilots are trained to fight America’s remote-controlled wars.
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