By Sally DeBoer The ushering in of a new administration on January 20th has many wondering what campaign promises will materialize and meaningfully affect the U.S. Navy. Is it reasonable to expect movement toward a “350-ship Navy” and, if so, what might such a Navy look like? Where can increased military spending be focused to … Continue reading Sea Control 125: Bryan McGrath on Fleet Design, Distributed Lethality, and the 350-Ship Navy→
By James E. Fanell and Ryan D. Martinson From Newport to New Delhi, a tremendous effort is currently underway to document and analyze China’s pursuit of maritime power. Led by experts in think tanks and academia, this enterprise has produced a rich body of scholarship in a very short period of time. However, even at … Continue reading Countering Chinese Expansion Through Mass Enlightenment→
South China Sea Topic Week By Ryan D. Martinson Chinese leaders, like leaders elsewhere, rely on the advice of outside experts—academics and other professional scholars—to help them cope with the myriad challenges of international politics. Statesmen and scholars, however, come from very different worlds. When leaders craft foreign policy, they place a premium on secrecy. … Continue reading The Scholar as Portent of Chinese Actions in the South China Sea→
Naval HA/DR Topic Week By Joshua Tallis Military Operations Other Than War. Maritime Irregular Activities. Maritime Security Operations. The terminology with which we refer to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HA/DR), among other non-traditional functions, draws a clear distinction: there is war, and then there is everything else. Under such categorization, HA/DR is often something … Continue reading Other Than War: HA/DR and Geopolitics→
