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Geopolitics

Channeling “Streetfighter”? The PLAN’s Houbei FAC

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“In the information age we substitute mass for speed, a high degree of simultaneity for sequential action,” he said. “And access is highly valued: access to information, access to ideas, access to the domains of conflict. The Streetfighter concepts are meant to secure access and achieve high speed. That is, to be able to alter [...] [...]

Air Warfare

“Good Fences Make Good Neighbors”

“Washington should show its political will and stop playing with guns on China’s doorsteps. ‘Good fences make good neighbors’ the words of the American poet Robert Frost also hold true for this relationship.” – China Daily (27 July 2011) Last week the Taiwanese press revealed an incident that occurred on the 29th of June wherein [...] [...]

Joint Warfare

Sea-Based BMD — Another Successful Test

  Another test of the SM-3 Blk 1A was successfully completed last night with the intercept of an IRBM-class target: The Missile Defense Agency (MDA), U.S. Navy sailors aboard the Aegis destroyer USS O’KANE (DDG 77), and Soldiers from the 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command operating from the 613th Air and Space Operations [...] [...]

Air Warfare

Thought for the Day

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Geopolitics

Competition in the South China Sea

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At its root it is all about resources — protein to supplement meager domestic harvests and oil to drive economies that governments push to unnatural and unsustainable annual growth.  It is about an emergent regional power, poised on the brink of asserting itself as something more, flexing new found muscle in new domains and deepening [...] [...]

Maritime Strategy

The Naval Operations Concept 2010 — Implementing the Maritime Strategy

  Three years ago this coming October the new maritime strategy (“A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower”) was published to some acclaim and much criticism. The new maritime strategy proposed a sea-change in missions and direction of the maritime services (Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard) in light of the emerging post-Cold War world. [...] [...]

Maritime Strategy

Dilbert on Strategy

Submitted without comment: . . . except to ask where’s the NOC? [...]

Maritime Strategy

Thoughts on ‘A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower’ Two Year’s Later: Author’s Response

Bryan McGrath, lead author of CS21 (as it is coming to be called in shorthand) stopped by in the comments section in the previous post to leave the commentary now shown below.  I opted (head nod to Peter S. per our earlier discussion) to elevate it to a post of its own for wider dissemination [...] [...]

Maritime Strategy

‘A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower’ Two Years Later: Three Questions

Two years ago this week, the CNO, CMC and USCG Commandant released the naval services’ new maritime strategy – A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower, at the International Seapower Symposium being hosted by the Naval War College in Newport, RI. The release of a new maritime strategy was significant given the length of time, [...] [...]