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Aircraft carriers USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) and USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) are in the Philippine Sea rehearsing what Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson called “high-end war fighting”, US Naval Institute News reports.

By Otto Kreisher The US Navy is “fully committed” to developing and fielding advanced directed energy weapons to deal with emerging threats and to reduce the cost per shot, the Navy’s number two officer said (June 2016).

The United States has a definite strategic approach to the Indian Ocean Region seeking to ensure the free passage of raw materials and manufactured goods, keep watch over the choke points that provide access to the ocean and ensure that its objectives in the region are not impeded, Lindsay Hughes, Research Analyst, Indian Ocean Research Program, of Future Directions International, writes.

Part 2 of an article on Chinese defence. Part 1 was published in May 2016. By Vice Admiral Pradeep Chauhan AVSM & Bar, VSM, IN (Ret.)* In this second and concluding part of the article series the author explores Chinese strategic intent and its ramifications. The article provides an account of the naval facilities China is promoting or constructing on disputed islands among littoral states of the Indian Ocean; assesses China’s economic linkages with African nations; and projects the growth curve of the Chinese Navy, all of which are important to keep in view while analyzing the trajectory of Chinese geo-strategic intent.

By Alex Calvo* Concerning the question of whether a country needs to be a nuclear weapons state in order to be a top diplomatic power, right from the early days of the nuclear era possession of the bomb has been widely recognized as a major status symbol, marking a country as a big power and supporting its diplomatic stance.

By Peter Layton* EVERY country has an F-35 story it seems. Both Australian and Canadian force structure planning has been blighted by the aircraft’s problems and long delays to replace or complement the F18.

Part 3 of a series on the Soviet-era bomber By Jon Solomon* THE key to improving a Soviet maritime bomber raid’s odds of success appears to have been its own use of EW and tactical deception.

Since Backfire needed pathfinder support, the U.S. Navy’s key to disrupting if not decapitating a raid by the former was to defeat the latter, John Solomon writes.

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By Lindsay Hughes, Research Analyst, Indian Ocean Research Program, Future Directions International Key Points The United States has a definite strategic approach to the Indian Ocean...