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Monthly Archives:: June 2012
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.
Royal Navy – Philip Hammond unveils £1bn deal to pave way for Trident replacement
- Daily Telegraph – Britain is to forge ahead with a new generation of nuclear weapons with a £1bn contract to be unveiled this week.
Russian Navy – Russia 'sending warships to Syria'
- Daily Telegraph – Russia is preparing to send two amphibious assault ships to the Syrian port of Tartus. The move is seen as an attempt to ensure the safety of Russian nationals stationed at the strategic naval base Moscow operates on Syria’s Mediterranean coast.
Dutch Navy – Dutch Reinforce Ocean Shield
- Defense Technology International – The Dutch parliament yesterday approved reinforcements of NATO’s Operation Ocean Shield counterpiracy mission while delaying a decision to expand the EU’s parallel Operation Atalanta until after parliamentary elections in September.
Indian Navy – Navy to dispatch four warships on overseas deployment
- Times of India – In keeping with its steadily growing blue-water capabilities, the Navy is now all set to dispatch four warships on an overseas deployment to the Horn of Africa, Red Sea and the western Mediterranean, even as four of its other warships entered the Shanghai port in China on Wednesday.
Chinese Navy – Firepower bristles in South China Sea as rivalries harden
- Reuters – In the early years of China’s rise to economic and military prowess, the guiding principle for its government was Deng Xiaoping’s maxim: “Hide Your Strength, Bide Your Time.” Now, more than three decades after paramount leader Deng launched his reforms, that policy has seemingly lapsed or simply become unworkable as China’s military [...]
Royal Navy – Cutting missile system leaves warships at risk
- Daily Telegraph – The Royal Navy’s warships will be vulnerable to enemy attack after a key project that allows ships to fire each other’s weapons was dropped.
Indian Navy – INS Vikramaditya Out for Sea Trials
- Defense Technology International – The Indian Navy may start preparing to get into service the second aircraft carrier. On June 8, INS Vikramaditya left Russia’s Sevmash shipyard in Severdvinsk to head for its first sea trials. According to Sevmash, the trials will take 124 days. They will start in the White Sea, then the [...]
Chinese Navy – 5 Things the Pentagon Isn't Telling Us About the Chinese Military
- Foreign Policy – Here’s what you won’t find in the Defense Department’s latest report on China’s military rise. Reposted – I fixed the link to this article. Thanks to Terry for mentioning it to me!
US Navy – 20,000 colleagues under the sea
- The Economist – Fleets of robot submarines will change oceanography (and warfare).
US Navy – The China syndrome
- The Economist – AirSea Battle is now the Pentagon’s priority, but it has its critics
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