Let Me Get this Strait: The Turkish Straits Question Revisited
WEBJun 1, 2020 · Chokepoints and Littorals Topic Week. By Paul Pryce. The Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits, together with the adjoining Marmara Sea, are known collectively as the Turkish Straits and provide the only access between the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea.
Prepare for the Spectrum of Competition and Warfighting
WEBNov 2, 2023 · Flotilla Notes Series. By Doug Kettler. In the era of renewed great power competition, calls for reform have resulted from a perception that the U.S. military has lost its warfighting focus. 1 However, in this era, warfighting is more than delivering “warheads on foreheads.” 2 There is a spectrum of interdependent functions that each organization …
Chokepoints and Littorals Topic Week | Center for International ...
WEBBy Dmitry Filipoff. From June 1-12, 2020, CIMSEC featured a wide array of publications on strategic maritime chokepoints and littorals, submitted in response to our call for articles issued in partnership with the Brute Krulak Center for Innovation and Creativity of U.S. Marine Corps University. This turned out to be one of the most packed CIMSEC topic …
Center for International Maritime Security | Fostering the …
WEBBy Scott A. Humr. Technical talent is critical to the Department of the Navy’s bid for technological overmatch in modern warfare. More emphatically, Vice Admiral Loren Selby stated in the Navy’s Naval STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) Strategic Plan, “Strong Naval STEM efforts are critical to America’s future, and are a …
Battlespace Awareness Tools Are Central to Fleet Readiness
WEBDec 6, 2021 · By Michael Tiefel and Andrew Orchard. In his book Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations, Capt.(ret) Wayne Hughes states: “At sea the essence of tactical success has been the first application of effective offensive force.” 1 Capt. Hughes’ warfighting axiom – applying offensive force first – is the distinct advantage information warfare (IW) intends …
Breaking the Anti-Ship Missile Kill Chain
WEBFeb 26, 2018 · By Dick Mosier. With the fielding of increasingly capable anti-ship missiles, the centerpiece of the next conflict with a near-peer maritime power will be warfare to deny the adversary the intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and target acquisition information required for successful anti-ship missile attack on surface combatants and …
Blockade: An Imperfect Strategy | Center for International Maritime ...
WEBMay 1, 2019 · Blockade: An Imperfect Strategy. By LT Jason Lancaster, USN. Introduction. Throughout history, maritime nations have used naval blockades to wreck the economies of their adversaries and bend them to their will. However, the impact of blockade in history has been overstated. Throughout history, blockade has been a part of military success, but ...
Fighting DMO, Pt. 1: Defining Distributed Maritime Operations …
WEBFeb 20, 2023 · By Dmitry Filipoff. Series Introduction “Why study tactics? It is the sum of the art and science of the actual application of combat power. It is the soul of our profession.” –Vice Admiral Arthur K. Cebrowski, foreword to the second edition of Fleet Tactics by Captain Wayne P. Hughes, Jr.. In the Western Pacific, the U.S. Navy is facing one of the …
The 50-Year Dilemma In Aircraft Carrier Design and the Future of ...
WEBBy Brent D. Sadler. June 2024 marks the 90 th year since commissioning the Ranger (CV-4), the first purpose-designed and built U.S. aircraft carrier. The Ranger stood on the legacies of several ships, most notably the converted collier Langley (CV-1), commissioned in 1922. A century of lessons learned from fleet experimentation during the interwar …
Countering China’s Maritime Insurgency with Coast Guard …
WEBJun 15, 2021 · By Lawrence Hajek. Losing the green water sea control challenge in the South China Sea could sideline US-led efforts in Asia. The US Coast Guard’s Deployable Specialized Forces can step up to provide strategic support for INDOPAC command.