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China is Not Just Claiming the South China Sea
It is Learning to Govern It
2w agoRead it on RUSIChinese 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
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 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
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...
3w agoRead it on Proceedings
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