China’s Malacca dilemma
By Vidya Sagar Reddy*
China has been pressing to complete the Gwadar port in Pakistan and build the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), allowing it to be connected over land to an Indian Ocean port. Gwadar and CPEC allow China to circumvent the Strait of Malacca which can be blockaded by rival navies in the event of conflict, termed as “Malacca Dilemma.”
The military mind in the age of innovation
By Brad DeWeesb*
Is the “military mind” compatible with the values that make innovation possible? N Korea building 3,000-ton class sub, researcher says
North Korea has been developing a 3,000-ton class diesel-powered submarine since 2009, with the new type aimed at being capable of loading four of...
Naval shipbuilding helping to keep the economy afloat
THE importance of naval shipbuilding to the Scottish economy has been highlighted in new research that shows the industry supports almost 10,000 jobs and...
New Chinese shipbuilding facility ‘may be used for n-subs’
Bohai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Co. Ltd.’s (BSHIC's) announcement of a new shipbuilding facility has prompted speculation the Chinese company may use the site to...
China’s reaction to SCS ruling will lead it into battles it will not win
By Mark E. Rosen*
The Arbitration Panel’s ruling against China on July 12 was a stinging blow to China’s international prestige. China advanced a narrative...
Australia must rid itself of insular imagination
By Michael Evans*
In order to thrive in the twenty-first century, a country with an interest in the use of the sea needs to develop and implement a coherent maritime strategy – galvanizing the sea power of the state and society.1
In national security affairs what often marks Australia’s experience is an insular imagination, a feature that is most striking when it comes to understanding the importance of the sea. Despite being an island-continent dependent on seaborne trade, Australia has undergone a two-century long adolescence in appreciating the significance of the sea in strategy.
After distributed lethality, unmanned netted lethality
By Javier Gonzalez*
Distributed lethality was introduced to the fleet in January 2015 as a response to the development of very capable anti-access area-denial (A2/AD) weapons and sensors specifically designed to deny access to a contested area. The main goal is to complicate the environment for our adversaries by increasing surface-force lethality—particularly with our offensive weapons—and transform the concept of operations for surface action groups (SAGs), thus shifting the enemy’s focus from capital ships to every ship in the fleet. Deglobalisation will change mission of naval forces
By T. X. Hammes*
Since the end of World War II, the United States has consistently supported greater global integration. U.S. leaders saw this as the route to both prosperity and security. After the shock of Korea, the United States consistently forward deployed its armed forces to support this policy. The following decades of increasing global trade seem to validate this strategy. However from 2011 to 2014, manufacturing trade as a percentage of GDP actually flattened and then declined from 2011 to 2014. Pretty vacant. Some random thoughts on WWI
By Mike Fogarty*
TO WHAT extent was the Australian Imperial Force’s experience in the First World War similar to the experience of the other components...