New strategy for US Navy surface force
By Sam LaGrone
A NEW strategy for the surface force – released 9 Jan 2017 – creates an outline for a navy that anticipates...
China steps up naval patrols in disputed islands with Japan
China has stepped up patrols in the waters of the disputed islands under the control of Japan in the East China Sea, a move...
Australia ‘should defend the US-led order in Asia’
By GRACE KIM, Policy Planning Staff, US State Department
Australia and the United States clearly differs on strategy, tactics, and even interests in the Chinese...
US Navy, GD hit crossroads in destroyer negotiations
By Christopher P. Cavas
The US Navy has or is building 75 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, considered among the most powerful surface ships ever fielded....
US Navy, Donald Trump planning biggest fleet expansion since Cold War
BOOSTING shipbuilding to meet the Navy's 355-ship goal could require an additional $5 billion to $5.5 billion in annual spending in the Navy's 30-year...
The need to cut steel, and cut it now
The Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Tim Barrett, speaks about Plan Pelorus - as well as the integration requirements of future platforms and systems...
Naval mines: innovating in the face of benign neglect
Of the 19 U.S. Navy ships that have been seriously damaged or sunk by enemy action since the end of World War II, 15 – nearly 80 percent – were mine victims. Scott C. Truver looks at the threat.
This vulnerability to mines has catalyzed the U.S. Navy to spend many hundreds of millions of dollars to counter a global threat that includes more than a million sea mines of more than 300 types in the inventories of more than 50 navies worldwide Expert puts Chinese ship-building in context
ON THE occasion of the publication of his newest book, Chinese Naval Shipbuilding: An Ambitious and Uncertain Course, the 6th volume in the USNI Press’ Studies in Chinese Maritime Development Series, CIMSEC acting director By Sally DeBoer*spoke with editor and author Dr. Andrew Erickson, Professor of Strategy in, and a core founding member of, the U.S. Naval War College (NWC)’s China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI). Indian navy expansion
Indian Navy gears up to induct more submarines, warships in 2017
The Indian Navy’s Western Naval Command is set to induct more warships and...
Moscow seeks naval drills as Russian warships visit Manila
Russia wants to hold maritime drills with the Philippines to help combat terrorism and piracy, sending two warships to Manila for the first official...