World naval developments June 2016
It seems clear that the ‘European project’ achieved nearly all the positive effect it could almost immediately on coming into being, when it created a free trade zone. Everything else has been downhill, Norman Friedman writes
Don’t count on Philippines arbitration win
By Andrew Chubb*
ON 12 July, an international arbitral tribunal will hand down its findings in a landmark case brought by the Philippines against China over the South China Sea issue. The decision will have far-reaching implications, not only for this contentious maritime dispute but also for international law and politics in East Asia. Russian ship’s close encounter
A Russian frigate again came dangerously close to U.S. ships tasked with striking ISIS targets in Syria from the Eastern Mediterranean – coming within 150 yards of the Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier strike group while the carrier was conducting flight operations on Thursday, US Naval Institute News has learned.
Second amphibious group for S Pacific
The Navy and Marine Corps will deploy a second Amphibious Ready Group and Marine Expeditionary Unit team to the Southern Pacific beginning as early as 2019, to allow the Japan-based forward deployed forces to focus on the northern and eastern parts of the vast Asia-Pacific theater, a Marine Corps official said (July 2016), the US Naval Institute News reports. Chinese ships train with US carrier group
Five ships from the People’s Liberation Army Navy have trained with ships from a U.S. carrier strike group ahead of July 2016's Rim of the Pacific 2016 exercises, a Navy official confirmed to US Naval Institute News. The ingredients of counter-deception
This is Part four of a series on the Soviet-era Backfire bomber
By Jon Solomon*
HOW could a U.S. Navy battle force then — or now — avoid defeats at the hands of a highly capable adversary’s deceptions? The first necessary ingredient is distributing multi-phenomenology sensors in a defense’s outer layers. What tensions? Chinese ships join US Navy in Pacific exercise
Despite the tensions between the US and China over islands in the South China Sea, a five-ship Chinese flotilla will take part in RIMPAC...
US diplomat ‘source of Chinese claim’
China’s ‘Historic Rights’ in the South China Sea: Made in America?
The current understanding of “historic rights” in the South China Sea in China can...
‘Brace’ for South China Sea ruling
An Arbitral Tribunal is expected to rule this month on a South China Sea territorial dispute between China and the Philippines, and the U.S....
Alliances and co-operation ‘essential’
Navy, Pentagon and national leadership spoke about the importance of military alliances and regional cooperation in solving today’s biggest problems, from terrorism to piracy...