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Killer Defense: Sea-Denial Lessons from Gallipoli to Taiwan
The U.S. Navy has not prioritized sea denial since the 19th century, but a Taiwan contingency will require it to study up.
01/29/26Read it on ProceedingsChinese 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...
2w agoRead it on USNI NewsThe Mother of All Cutters
Drawing a White-Hull Line in PACOM
2w 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
2w 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...
2w agoRead it on The Strategist (ASPI)China is Not Just Claiming the South China Sea
It is Learning to Govern It
3w 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
3w 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
3w 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...
10/03/26Read it on Proceedings
Beyond Hormuz: What Washington Should Expect from a Frontline Ally
By Daewon Cho • RealClearDefense
Putin, Plague, and the America’s Biodefense Gap
By Ryan Kane • RealClearDefense
Patriot Delays Force a New Air Defense Doctrine on NATO’s Eastern Flank
By Jan K. Varga • RealClearDefense
How the Army Can Turn Plans into Combat Power
By Matt Russell • RealClearDefense
Is It Déjà vu All Over Again: The 2012 Report on Global Zero
By Peter Huessy • RealClearDefense
U.S. Marine Corps Attack Helicopters Set for Major Upgrade
By C. Jones, Defence Blog
How the Iran War Compounded the U.S. Navy’s Maintenance Crisis
By Hartung, NatInt
Fielding Forces for Full Mobilization
By Jon Hoffman, Proceedings
BAE’s New Launcher Lets Warships Deploy and Replenish Missiles at Sea
By NextGenD
Why Is the Navy Spending $19 Billion on ‘Flying Gas Stations’?
By Mark Thompson, RS