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Shipping Waiver Subsidizes Beijing's Fleet and Weakens Shipyards
At a time when the People's Republic of China dominates global shipping and shipbuilding (China builds more than half of all ships sailing the...
06/23/26Read it on RealClearDefenseChinese 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...
1d agoRead it on USNI NewsThe Mother of All Cutters
Drawing a White-Hull Line in PACOM
1d 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
3d 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...
3d agoRead it on The Strategist (ASPI)China is Not Just Claiming the South China Sea
It is Learning to Govern It
4d 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
1w 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
1w 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...
1w agoRead it on Proceedings
Reflecting on an Epic Horse Campaign in the Mountains of Afghanistan
By Brian Glyn Williams • RealClearDefense
The Godfather of American Foreign Policy Realism Speaks to Today’s World
By Francis P. Sempa • RealClearDefense
In Pursuit of Nuclear Abolition
By Peter Huessy • RealClearDefense
Innovation Alone Won’t Prepare the U.S. for the Future Battlefield
By Joshua Segal • RealClearDefense
The sUAS Tactical Trifecta
By Bryan T. Woody • RealClearDefense
Navy Civilianizes Six Former Flag Billets, Reduces Six to Captains
By Mongilio, USNI N.
Raytheon's $8B Contract for Strategic Comms Terminal Modernization
By M+A El
America’s Maritime Moment Will Not Wait
By CDR Salamander
Armor Up?
By Marine Corps Compass Points
Who Shoots Down the Drone Over the Shipyard?
By John Ferrari & Dillon Prochnicki • RealClearDefense