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China Commission's Fujian Aircraft Carrier with EMALS
China's president, Xi Jinping, attended the ceremony to mark the pace of the country's naval modernisation effort.
11/10/25Read it on Naval-TechnologyChinese Carrier Strike Group Drills in the Philippine Sea
The People's Liberation Army Navy Liaoning Carrier Strike Group was operating in the Philippine Sea as of Wednesday, according to a Japan Joint...
1w agoRead it on USNI NewsThe Mother of All Cutters
Drawing a White-Hull Line in PACOM
1w agoRead it on CIMSEC
The U.S. Needs Its Own Grey-Zone Tactics in the South China Sea
Passive resistance to Beijing’s actions in the South China Sea is not working. If the United States wants to win in the region, it needs a grey-zone strategy of its own.
Beijing has spent a decade refining a playbook that stays deliberately below the threshold of armed conflict. Chinese coast guard ships ram Philippine vessels, maritime militia swarm disputed reefs, and drones shadow foreign ships. Washington’s response – patrols, joint statements and expressions of concern – has imposed few costs and changed little.
Philippine and Chinese Incidents Spike in South China Sea
Philippine and Chinese forces have dangerously engaged each other at least six times at several disputed areas
1w agoRead it on USNI NewsThe U.S. Needs Its Own Grey-Zone Tactics in the South China Sea
Passive resistance to Beijing's actions in the South China Sea is not working. If the United States wants to win in the region, it needs a...
1w agoRead it on The Strategist (ASPI)China is Not Just Claiming the South China Sea
It is Learning to Govern It
2w agoRead it on RUSIChina Muddies the Waters East of Taiwan
The proliferation of Chinese actors in the waters east of Taiwan is a significant development in Beijing's grey-zone strategy
2w agoRead it on International Institute for Strategic StudiesThe Prophet of Sea Power
Alfred Thayer Mahan steered America's course with a steady hand of Christian realism
2w agoRead it on Modern AgeBuild an Integrated Approach to Theater Undersea Warfare
For decades, the Navy's undersea strategy had been built on a comfortable assumption: Adversary submarines were never as good as those of the...
3w agoRead it on Proceedings
The Emerging SQUAD
By Muhammad Shoaib • RealClearDefense
Somebody Has to Hold the Ground
By Jay Rogers • RealClearDefense
U.S. Navy Shipbuilding: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
By Brent Ramsey • RealClearDefense
The Services Do Not Need a Four-Star Autonomous Warfare Command
By Steven Wills • RealClearDefense
Honor Them While There Is Still Time
By Jeffrey Rosales • RealClearDefense
U.S. Military Gives Elon Musk’s SpaceX Access to Sensitive Tracking Data
By Guardian
USS McFaul Returns to Norfolk After 332 Day Deployment
By Sam LaGrone
The U.S. Shipbuilding Revival Is Taking Lessons Halfway Around the World
By WSJ
Hypersonic -Firing B-1B Lancer To Fly Into the 2040s
By Kris Osborn, Warrior MavenU.S. Navy Shipbuilding: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
By Brent Ramsey, RCDefense