East Asia security in age of Chinese mega cutter
By Ryan D. Martinson
ON MAY 19th, a formidable new Chinese ship put to sea for the first time. As it left its berth at Jiangnan Shipyard, its onboard automatic identification system (AIS) transmitted signals for anyone who cared to receive them. Its identity, Zhongguo Haijing 2901. Its purpose, sea trials. Its heading, somewhere in the East China Sea. World naval developments June 2015
By Norman Friedman*
IN JUNE, the U.S. government announced that it had suffered a vast breach of computer security. The data bases kept by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) had been entered, and some or all of the contents taken. Norman Friedman looks at the implications.
SEA 1000: the design challenge
By Christopher Skinner
THERE are other important dimensions to consider in a large complex project such as the Future Submarine Program (FSP) SEA 1000 besides...
China’s military white paper
By Himanil Raina
The Security Environment
On 26 May 2015, China released its first ever White Paper focusing exclusively on military strategy. China’s economic rise propelled...
Germany lobbies for India’s submarine project
By Aiswarya Lakshmi
GERMANY is hopeful in bagging multi-billion-dollar Indian submarine project for building six conventional submarines, says a PTI report.
German Ambassador to India...
Sea power of the state in the 21st century
Jessica Huckabey writes that Admiral Sergei S. Gorshkov’s legacy is that he remains an inspirational symbol in the two countries that should come as no surprise: Russia and China. Indonesia as a growing maritime power: implications for Australia
In the latest RAN Soundings series Geoffrey Till looks at the implication for Australia of Indonesia's growing maritime power. Geographic re-balance the solution to right-sizing the Navy
By Steven Wills
THE new 2015 Maritime Strategy demands a significant part of the US Navy be forward based or operated in order to achieve national goals. The current number of ships and their present deployment pattern may not support the new strategy's goals. Call for articles – July’s Distributed Lethality Week
By James Drennan*
Week Dates: July 6-10
Articles Due: June 30
Article Length: 500-1500 words
Submit Articles to: nextwar@cimsec.org
SINCE the leaders of the Surface Navy unveiled the concept...
Full spectrum anti-theater missile warfare
What can be done to wage a wartime theater anti-submarine campaign could be done to wage a campaign to defeat an adversary’s wartime use of theater-range conventionally-armed ballistic and cruise missiles, Jonathan Soloman argues.