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→
This article originally featured on Lawfare. It may be read in its original form here. By Raul “Pete” Pedrozo and James Kraska The United States has been unable to synchronize successful air and sea freedom of navigation (FON) operations in the South China Sea with an erratic diplomatic message and a legal case that is too clever … Continue reading Can’t Anybody Play This Game? US FON Operations and Law of the Sea→
On April 3, the 20th anti-piracy flotilla of the People’s Liberation Army Navy got underway for operations off the Horn of Africa. Since the arrival off Somalia of the first Chinese anti-piracy flotilla in January 2009, approximately three flotillas have successively served annually in that region. Simple data compiled from open sources on the deployments of … Continue reading China’s Anti-Piracy Flotillas: By the Numbers→
