Future maritime security
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So, it seems the (estimated) 131st consecutive successful Trident test flight went off in an epic fashion! In Saudi! That’s…unprecedented. (UPDATE: Looks like the story is getting walked back a bit…the AP’s source, “A Western military official in Saudi Arabia” is being contradicted by Pentagon spokespersons–who say there was no launch of any kind.) How, […]
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As the Arctic heats up, diplomatic meetings are getting rather frosty. You might have missed this, but Canada got a public rebuke from the U.S. yesterday over Arctic policy. From the Voice of America: On Viagra price Monday, Canada hosted a meeting of foreign ministers from five countries with Arctic coastlines for talks on maritime […]
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Yes, this is old news…but it’s something worth covering. The Prague Treaty opens the way for research on Prompt Global Strike: No Constraints on Missile Defense and Conventional Strike: The Treaty d order viagra online oes not contain any constraints on testing, development or deployment of current or planned U.S. missile defense programs or current […]
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ConflictHealth.com‘s Chris Albon and I cooked up a little article on China’s Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile threat. Read it here. zp8497586rq
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Phil Ewing over at Navy Times makes an interesting catch: Navy engineers in March began looking into how the fleet should prepare for an attack by one of the most feared and controversial weapons of the modern age: an electromagnetic pulse. So, even though the U.S. is working to cut nuclear weapons, we’re also preparing […]
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In February, 1898, the USS Maine blew up in Cuba. Within two months, the U.S. was at war with Spain. A similar Maine-like provocation (today’s loss of the South Korean warship Cheonan after an explosion) could tip the tense Korean Peninsula over the edge, changing the game in Asia. Let’s be blunt: When a warship […]
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Even with the big arms control news today, conventional missiles look like the wave of the future. Get used to cheap, non-nuclear and ballistic weaponry. I’ll be writing more about this, but these programs have been sorta on the fringes of the defense community for some time. Lockheed, a few years ago, got funds to […]
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…one link at a time! Good to see the indefatigable Mike Burleson linking in from his weekly big-carrier bash-fest, and glad to see Greg from defenstech.org responding to my Asia shipbuilding post. Drop me a line, ya’ll. The more new voices out there on defense issues, the better. zp8497586rq
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For all the whining about how America isn’t funding cutting-edge rotary wing research, a few new rotary-wing UAV offerings look, ah, well cutting edge. Take Boeing’s A160 Hummingbird (YMQ-18A). This company-funded program has moved with lightening speed, and the fact this platform initially used a cheap off-the-shelf Subaru auto engine should be enough to win […]
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In Asia, America has gotta move away from a long-standing habit of engaging in simple, bilateral force measurements. Asia is a multi-polar place, and America’s penchant for strategic over-simplification is going to land the U.S. into serious trouble. Put bluntly, U.S. Navy-folk need to remember there are a few other countries over on the other […]
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