- 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.
Monthly Archives:: July 2012
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 – [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
US Navy – US deploys underwater drones to hunt for Iranian drones
- 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 [...]
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.
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