- New York Times – Since a low-key Christmas Eve announcement of a French sale of assault ships to Russia, high-level government deal makers have boasted about the multimillion-euro deal like it was a soccer game triumph…But critics – particularly among Russia’s neighbors including Georgia, Estonia and Lithuania – are raising alarms that France may [...]
Monthly Archives:: December 2010
Russian Navy – Russia to buy two warships in deal with France
- Washington Post – After a long hesitation and arduous negotiations, Russia has decided to buy at least two of France’s advanced Mistral-class amphibious warships in an unprecedented military deal between Moscow and the West.
US Navy – Navy Awards Two Contracts to Build New Combat Ships
- New York Times – The Navy on Wednesday awarded two companies contracts that could be worth a total of more than $7 billion to build 20 of its new littoral combat ships, splitting the purchase to obtain the vessels more quickly.
Iranian Navy – Iran meets with US Navy over piracy
- Associated Press – A common fight against piracy brought U.S. and Iranian navy commanders together in a meeting with other participants earlier this month.
Chinese Navy – U.S. commander says China aims to be a 'global military' power
- Asahi Shimbun – Robert Willard, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, said he believes that China aspires to become a “global military (power)” by extending its influence beyond its regional waters.
Chinese Navy – China Deploys World’s First Long-Range, Land-Based ‘Carrier Killer’: DF-21D Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile (ASBM) Reaches “Initial Operational Capability” (IOC)
- China Sign Post – As we enter the Year of the Hare, China has achieved a major military milestone far faster than many foreign observers thought possible. In a December 2010 interview with veteran national security journalist Yoichi Kato of the Asahi Shimbun, Admiral Robert F. Willard, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command, offered significant new [...]
Chinese Navy – China speeds plans to launch aircraft carrier
- Reuters – China may be ready to launch its first aircraft carrier in 2011, Chinese military and political sources said on Thursday, a year ahead of U.S. military analysts’ expectations.
Chinese Navy – China's aircraft carrier ambitions
- Reuters – Here are some facts about China’s carrier ambitions.
US Navy – What Lies Beneath
- Los Angeles Times Magazine – An insider’s tale of a search for Soviet bombs in the Pacific can finally be told.
Ground Warfare – The Gun
- Esquire – It is perhaps the most potent question to echo from the cold war: Who lost Vietnam? Well, there were certainly many factors, but an important new book forces us to consider this: For the first time in human history, a poorly trained peasant army humbled a great power with the gun its [...]
US Marines – Hitting the Beach in the 21st Century
- US Naval Institute Proceedings – As adversaries and weapons grow more advanced, amphibious doctrine must evolve, and the Navy—Marine Corps team must keep the blade sharpened for sea-to-shore capabilities.
Air Warfare – Airpower Over Water
- Air Force – The mission spent the 1990s adrift, but aircraft are again seen as a prime way to track and target threats at sea.
US Marines – Versatility in the Age of Uncertainty
- US Naval Institute Proceedings – With its ability to work across the seams of other services’ domains and its value in the all-important littoral sphere, the Marine Corps remains as relevant as ever in the 21st century.
Ground Warfare – From Russia With Blood
- Foreign Policy – C.J. Chivers talks with Foreign Policy about the Kalashnikov, the world’s real weapon of mass destruction.
US Navy – Mind the Gap
- US Naval Institute Proceedings – Keeping the Joint Strike Fighter Program on track is essential to maintaining U.S. military primacy and preventing an aircraft inventory shortfall.
Chinese Navy – Keeping the Pacific Pacific
- Foreign Affairs – A look at the looming U.S.-Chinese naval rivalry.
US Navy – U.S.S Prius
- New York Times – Tom Friedman on the US Navy’s green initiatives.
US Navy – The Forgotten Threat
- US Naval Institute Proceedings – It is likely only a matter of time before terrorists attempt maritime attacks in the United States using small vessels. Why isn’t something being done about it? Whatever happened to the small-boat threat?
Chinese Navy – China’s naval ambitions
- Armed Forces Journal – 10 myths America holds about China.
US Navy – 'Tipping' the Future Fleet
- US Naval Institute Proceedings – The course ahead for the Navy of the mid-21st century is still uncharted. The strategic alternative it chooses now will chart that course, for better or worse.
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