– Daily Telegraph – The United States is to intensify its military build up in the Persian Gulf by deploying miniature underwater drones to hunt for Iranian mines.
Iran – Raiding Iran Triggers Discussion Of When And How
– Aviation Week – Evidence is mounting that the U.S. defense community and the Obama administration view 2013 as the likely window for a bombing attack on Iran’s nuclear and missile facilities. It could be earlier, timed to use the chaos of the Syrian government’s fall to disguise such an attack, or later, if international negotiations with Iran stretch out without failing completely. But there is evidence that Iran’s intransigence over shutting down its uranium-enrichment program will not buy it much more time. Because of these shifting factors, military planners and White House advisers are still debating the advisability of a kinetic attack on Iran even though they say that option is ready.
US Marines – A Grueling Course for Training Marine Officers Will Open Its Doors to Women
– New York Times – CJ Chivers on how the Marines are preparing to let women enter infantry training.
US Navy – Afghan Conflict Losing Air Power as U.S. Pulls Out
– New York Times – CJ Chiver’s chronicles the evolution of close air support and the crucial role it plays in today’s wars.
Royal Navy – Nuclear submarines hit by more than 200 fires in the past 25 years
– Daily Telegraph – There have been 266 fires on the Royal Navy’s nuclear submarines in the past 25 years.
Geopolitics / Syria – Halting Syrian chaos
– Stratfor – Robert D. Kaplan analyses the current situation in Syria.
Chinese Navy – China's Navy on the Horizon
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – Its first aircraft carrier is more significant for what she foreshadows than what she may show the world in the immediate future.
US Navy – Crafting a 'Good' Strategy
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – There’s no time like the present to start looking into the proverbial crystal ball and thinking about a maritime strategy ‘refresh.’
US Navy – Naval Operations: A Close Look at the Operational Level of War at Sea
– US Naval War College Review – Today’s American navy writes prolifically about maritime strategies but has not devoted equal attention to campaign plans or analysis that tests the strategies’ viability. We illustrate herein how the operational-or campaign-level links policy and strategy to the tactical and technological elements of war at sea. First, we relate how the U.S. Navy reluctantly came to accept the existence of an operational level of warfare but having done so will find it useful. Second, we describe important properties of naval operations in terms of constants, trends, and variables in warfare at and from the sea. Third, we demonstrate how operational- level planning would help if the Navy and the nation were to adopt six clearly stated, twenty-first-century strategies that would serve present and future national policies better than do current strategy documents.
US Navy – Inside the New Defense Strategy
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – Norman Friedman looks at what’s new and what’s not in ‘Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense?’
Russian Navy – Renaissance of the Russian Navy?
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – Russia’s warship construction may be on the rise again, but the Russian naval mission of the 21st century appears markedly evolved from the Soviet naval mission of the 20th century.
Chinese Navy – Taking Mines Seriously: Mine Warfare in China’s Near Seas
– US Naval War College Review – The mine warfare experiences of America and other nations are not lost on the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). Chinese naval analysts and historians understand the asymmetric potential for mine warfare to “baffle the enemy, and thus achieve exceptional combat results.” Mines provide what some have de- scribed as “affordable security via asymmetric means.”
US Navy – So Much Strategy, So Little Strategic Direction
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – The Navy has to work out its strategy-tactics confusion; until then, it will continue to put the budgetary cart before the strategic horse.
US Navy – Sailing Through the 'Fog of Peace'
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – Professional military education is just as critical in a time of peace as it is in time of war—perhaps more so.
South African Navy – The South African Navy and African Maritime Security
– US Naval War College Review – This article begins with a brief outline of the history of South Africa’s navy—a history that accounts for some of the contemporary navy’s shortcomings. The article then outlines the SAN’s current capabilities and addresses the current constraints it faces. The article closes by looking to the future and advocating steps and measures that will need to be taken if the South African Navy is to make a significant contribution to African, or indeed even South African, maritime security.
US Navy – SEALs: 50 Years and Counting
– Naval History – In its first half century, a once little-known Navy unit has evolved into what is arguably the world’s most celebrated force of combat arms.
US Marines – Nothing Like a Good Maritime Raid
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – We started doing it 212 years ago. Now that the Marine Corps is going back to sea after a decade on the ground, it’s time to revive the Maritime Raid Force.
Miscellaneous – Networking the Global Maritime Partnership
– US Naval War College Review – Six years after Admiral Michael Mullen, then Chief of Naval Operations, pro- posed his “thousand-ship navy” concept at the Seventeenth International Seapower Symposium at the U.S. Naval War College in 2005, his notion of a Global Maritime Partnership is gaining increasing currency within, between, and among navies.
Geopolitics / Arctic – The Emerging Arctic Frontier
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – The world may seem to be growing smaller, but its seas are growing bigger—particularly in the great North, where a widening water-highway beckons both with resources and challenges.
US Navy – The Transformation (Again!) of the Surface Navy
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – In the 1980s, the Tomahawk cruise missile expanded the surface Navy’s role; in the 2000s, new technologies continue to enhance surface warfare’s strategic significance.
Afghanistan – Little America excerpt: Obama's troop increase for Afghan war was misdirected
– Washington Post – An exceprt from Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s new book entitled “Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan.”
US Navy – U.S. Navy Finds More LCS-1 Issues During Special Trials
– Aviation Week – While the U.S. Navy touted the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS-1) USS Freedom’s completion of special trials in May as a solid success, service officials still found issues on the ship that need to be addressed.
Royal Navy – Divided over Trident
– The Economist – The coalition is at odds over plans for new nuclear submarines
Information Warfare – Cool War
– Foreign Policy – John Arquilla asks could the age of cyberwarfare lead us to a brighter future?
US Navy – Women on submarines "very successful"
– San Diego Union Tribune – The commander of U.S. Navy submarine forces said the integration of women into the formerly all-male undersea world is “very successful” and signaled that he is getting close to a recommendation on whether all submarines will be opened to women, including the small, tight-quarters attack subs in San Diego.
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