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Time To Deploy Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons at Sea
The U.S. needs to break out of its post-Cold War posture and move to a warfighting doctrine with forward deployed theatre level or tactical nuclear...
05/18/24Read 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...
4d agoRead it on USNI NewsThe Mother of All Cutters
Drawing a White-Hull Line in PACOM
4d 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
6d 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...
6d agoRead it on The Strategist (ASPI)China is Not Just Claiming the South China Sea
It is Learning to Govern It
1w 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...
2w agoRead it on Proceedings
The Unfinished Reform
By Mark W. Castillon • RealClearDefense
Winning the Data Advantage
By Turin Pollard • RealClearDefense
The Pentagon’s Quantum Race Needs a Warfighter’s Scorecard
By Burak Oktenli • RealClearDefense
The F/A-XX and the AIM-260 Reclaim the Perimeter
By Bruce Allen Lubbering • RealClearDefense
Iranian Cyber Operations
By Michael Groen • RealClearDefense
Winning the Data Advantage
By Turin Pollard • RealClearDefenseThe F/A-XX and the AIM-260 Reclaim the Perimeter
By Bruce Allen Lubbering • RealClearDefenseWinning the Data Advantage
By Turin Pollard, RealClearDefenseThe F/A-XX and the AIM-260 Reclaim the Perimeter
By Bruce Allen Lubbering, RCD
F-22 Pilot Directs CCA in Flight as ‘Airborne QB’
By Stephen Losey, Air & Space Forces