By Joseph O’Connell The Coast Guard is facing a looming afloat officer shortage with no good options on the table. With roughly 3.5%* of all CG officer billets currently gapped, and a particular shortfall impacting mid-grade (O3/O4) officers the Coast Guard needs to explore creative solutions to address the pending crisis. At the conclusion of … Continue reading Gapped Billet Squall on the Horizon: The USCG Officer Corps Could be in Trouble→
By Capt. Anthony Cowden, USN (ret.) A recent article published by the Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC) – the first in a series – does an outstanding job of describing and explaining the Navy’s “core operating concept” of Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO). In short, DMO calls for “…the massing and convergence of fires from … Continue reading Distributed Maritime Operations – A Salvo Equation Analysis→
The following article is adapted from a new report by Dr. Toshi Yoshihara at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA), Chinese Lessons from the Pacific War: Implications for PLA Warfighting. By Toshi Yoshihara Like all militaries, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) studies other nations’ wars to understand the changing character of warfare. The … Continue reading China’s Lessons from the Pacific War and Implications for Future Warfighting→
