– StrategyPage – Excellent analysis of the current situation on the ground in Libya.
Royal Navy – Navy running short of Tomahawk missiles
– Daily Telegraph – The Royal Navy could run out of Tomahawk missiles after a fifth of the Navy stockpile has been used against Libya.
US Navy – The ‘blue national soil’ of China’s navy
– Washington Post – When some Chinese naval officers crossed the Pacific to visit the Naval War College here on an Atlantic-lapped island, they gazed reverently at a desk used by Capt. Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914). This compliment to America’s preeminent naval strategist has scholars here wondering whether Mahan’s Chinese readers are taking from him lessons similar to those Theodore Roosevelt derived.
Turkish Navy – Turkish navy to help enforce Libya embargo
– Al Jazeera – Ankara offers ships and submarine to help enforce arms embargo on Libya as talks over NATO’s role in Libya continue.
French Navy – French navy Rafales fly first missions over Libya
– Flight Global – French navy Dassault Rafales have flown their first sorties in support of the coalition campaign against the regime of Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi, launching from the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle.
US Navy – America’s Navy and the rise of China
– Washington Post – Scholars at the Naval War College here probably nodded in vigorous agreement with a recent lecture delivered at another military institution 130 miles away. Speaking at West Point to leaders of tomorrow’s Army, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that “any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should ‘have his head examined,’ as General MacArthur so delicately put it.” This underscored Gates’s point that “the most plausible, high-end scenarios for the U.S. military are primarily naval and air engagements – whether in Asia, the Persian Gulf or elsewhere.”
US Navy – Coalition Firepower
– BBC – Nice summary of the military assets currently operating against Libya.
US Marines – The Corps is all right
– Armed Forces Journal – Losing the EFV doesn’t jeopardize the Marines’ future.
US Coast Guard – Charting the Coast Guard's Course
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – The new Commandant evaluates the service’s recent successes but prescribes a pragmatic agenda.
US Navy – When Hornets Growl
– Air & Space – The new, supersonic face of e-warfare.
US Navy – The LCS Needs Speed
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – In the 1916 Battle of Jutland, two Royal Navy battlecruisers exploded because their armor had been sacrificed for speed, famously prompting Admiral David Beatty to remark, “There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.” In our day, as littoral combat ship (LCS) construction continues, many mutter similar complaints. The trimaran hull of the Independence class causes some of the dismay, but even more so for naval planners is the sacrifice of armor and armament for high speed.
Geopolitics – America Primed
– National Interest – A surprisingly optimistic global strategic assessment from Robert D. Kaplan and his brother.
Indian Navy – India's Cold Start Is Too Hot
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – Based on punitive offensive operations short of nuclear attack, India’s new doctrine against Pakistan flirts with Armageddon.
Geopolitics / Middle East – Un-American Revolutions
– Newsweek – Niall Ferguson writes that most rebellions end in carnage and tyranny. So why are Americans cheering on the Arab revolutionary wave?
Chinese Navy – Studying History to Guide China’s Maritime Great Power Rise
– Harvard Asia Quarterly – A historical look at Chinese naval aspirations.
Miscellaneous – The Tyranny of Defense Inc.
– The Atlantic – Andrew J. Bacevich on how in 1961, Dwight Eisenhower famously identified the military-industrial complex, warning that the growing fusion between corporations and the armed forces posed a threat to democracy. Judged 50 years later, Ike’s frightening prophecy actually understates the scope of our modern system—and the dangers of the perpetual march to war it has put us on.
US Navy – Strategic Choices at the Tipping Point
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – In light of global economic and strategic realities, here’s how the Navy of the future might look.
U.S. Navy – US mobilizes to get assistance to quake-ravaged Japan
– CNN – The US Navy is standing by to assist Japan.
US Navy – Details emerge about heroism involving Norfolk-based ship
– Virginian Pilot – Crew members of the Bulkeley came to the aid of a Japanese vessel on Saturday and arrested the four Somalis suspected of trying to hijack it. The Bulkeley was one of four U.S. Navy ships that tried last month to free four Americans off East Africa who were later shot and killed.
Chinese Navy – China's Military Space Surge
– Aerospace America – China’s surging military space program is poised to challenge U.S. aircraft carrier operations in the Pacific, as Chinese military spacecraft already gather significant new radar, electrooptical
imaging, and signal intelligence data globally.
Afghanistan – Putting Afghan Plan Into Action Proves Difficult
– New York Times – C.J. Chivers writes that if the American-led fight against the Taliban was once a contest for influence in well-known and conventionally defined areas – the capital and large cities, main roads, the border with Pakistan, and a handful of prominent valleys and towns – today it has become something else. Slowly, almost imperceptibly, the United States military has settled into a campaign for scattered villages and bits of terrain that few people beyond their immediate environs have heard of.
US Marines – Marines: Rightsizing into "middleweight" force
– San Diego Union Tribune – After 10 years of acting as America’s second land army, the U.S. Marine Corps will be slimmed down to “middleweight” fighter status, its leader says.
Geopolitics – Why the West is now in decline
– Daily Telegraph – For 500 years Western civilisation was full of self-belief, but now, historian Niall Ferguson argues its dominance is coming to an end.
Chinese Navy – China challenges US predominance in Asia-Pacific
– Associated Press – When China launched threatening war games off Taiwan 15 years ago on the eve of an election on the self-governing island, the U.S. deployed two aircraft carriers, and China quickly backed down. Things don’t seem so one-sided any more.
German Navy – Stranded Egyptians sail home on German warships
– Associated Press – After being robbed by Libyan soldiers and huddling in a transit camp on the Tunisian border for several days, some 400 laborers fleeing Libya found themselves on perhaps the strangest stretch of their odyssey – a ride home in three German warships.
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