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Norway faces a deteriorating strategic environment that will challenge Norwegian security again in the coming decades, and the necessary responses to them. The Norwegian National Security Strategy must address these challenges by refocusing NATO, enhancing bilateral partnerships, and strengthening the Norwegian Armed Forces.

US Navy chief calls for greater debate within the Navy. Read, think and write, he urges.

*By Captain (retd) Sukjoon Yoon THE Indo-Pacific region has long been dominated by Western concepts of security based on alliances, military strength and balance of power politics. It is time for China to play a more positive role in implementing active maritime security cooperation in the region by revitalising non-traditional security cooperation.

By Jon Solomon* A FIRST strike’s naval component is commonly referred to as the “first salvo.” A first salvo builds upon the maxim that the...

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.