Syria: Finding the Lost Cause in China

Welcome to America’s Syria Policy, the China round. Having made the public announcement of support to the rebels, only two feasible policy options remain for the United States; these examples arise from two moments in history, existing together on a razor’s edge of success in a smorgasbord of disaster. We either take a page from … Continue reading Syria: Finding the Lost Cause in China

Strength in Numbers: The Remarkable Potential of (Really) Small Combatants

LT Jimmy Drennan is a Surface Warfare Officer in the U.S. Navy. He is the prospective Weapons Officer aboard USS Gettysburg and a Distinguished Graduate of the Naval Postgraduate School’s Systems Engineering Analysis program.  You are a tactical commander tasked with a mission to seek out and destroy one of the enemy’s premier capital ships … Continue reading Strength in Numbers: The Remarkable Potential of (Really) Small Combatants

MFP: Tough Choices For Small Navies

The following is a guest post inspired by the questions in our Maritime Futures Project.  For more information on the contributors, click here.  Note: The opinions and views expressed in these posts are those of the authors alone and are presented in their personal capacity.  They do not necessarily represent the views of their parent institution U.S. Department of Defense, … Continue reading MFP: Tough Choices For Small Navies

China’s Maritime Policies: An Opportunity for Canada

By Joelle Westlund In some ways overshadowed by events elsewhere in its maritime claims, China added fuel the regional fire that has characterized its relations with neighbouring states for the last several decades on July 10th. This time it did so by launching a naval exercise in the waters near the Zhoushan islands in the … Continue reading China’s Maritime Policies: An Opportunity for Canada