Implementing the Maritime Strategy: Interview With 4th Fleet

Well, you know what the poet said about the best plans of mice and men. We had been scheduled to participate in the blogger’s roundtable today with RADM Stevensen regarding the standup of 4th Fleet. Alas, our day job intruded with unplanned, last minute tasking but the host, Jack Holt graciously submitted our questions during…

Navy Awards Northrop Grumman Unmanned Aircraft System Contract

"Enhance Awareness. To be effective, there must be a significantly increased commitment to advance maritime domain awareness (MDA) and expand intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capability and capacity."     – A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower Navy Awards Northrop Grumman Unmanned Aircraft System Contract The Department of the Navy announced today that the Northrop…

The Maritime Strategy, Deterrence & Escalation Dominance

“We believe that preventing wars is as important as winning wars…(w)e will pursue an approach to deterrence that includes a credible and scalable ability to retaliate against aggressors conventionally, unconventionally, and with nuclear forces” – A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower, October 2007 “…(O)ne of the things that we were stressing is an area…

Blogger’s Roundtable With VADM Morgan: The Maritime Strategy (UPDATED)

So what happens when you gather together bloggers like Galrahn, Eagle1, YHS and several others with VADM Morgan to discuss the Maritime Strategy via a teleconference on a late Thursday afternoon?  This:     Transcript should be forthcoming soon and will be posted as an update. Transcript’s up and posted below for your reading pleasure:…

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India Presses Homegrown Missile Defense

So your one neighbor, Pakistan, possesses nuclear weapons and is working assiduously on short- and medium-range missiles, no doubt with nuclear delivery in mind as part of a deterrent package against your own nuclear forces.  China, with whom you share a fairly long (and disputed) border has also been engaged in building a modern force of short-…

A Cooperative Strategy For 21st Century Seapower: An Assessment

  Prelude for Round II of the discussions on the Maritime Strategy.  The document below from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments will provide the departure point for said discussions beginning 31 March here and over at several of the usual suspects: Information Dissemination, CDR Salamander, OP-FOR.com, Chapomatic, Eagle1 to name but a few….

Roles and Missions Debate

And so it begins…  “This report seeks to provoke thoughtful public discussion about a vitally important question: how do we keep America strong and safe in a complex 21st-century national security environment?” – Rep. Jim Cooper “Unlike many Congressional reports, we have raised contentious issues and resisted the temptation to find easy, lowest-common-denominator solutions. My…

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The Next Nuclear Strategy for a New Administration – and Three Questions

   The accelerating spread of nuclear weapons, nuclear know-how and nuclear material has brought us to a nuclear tipping point. We face a very real possibility that the deadliest weapons ever invented could fall into dangerous hands.  The steps we are taking now to address these threats are not adequate to the danger. With nuclear…