What advice would you give to a smaller nation on the maritime investments it should pursue, and why? This is the eighth in our series of posts from 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 … Continue reading MFP 8: The Future of Small-Nation Maritime Forces
What emerging technology is going to most profoundly change the way naval warfare is conducted, and why? This is the Fourth in our series of posts from 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 … Continue reading MFP 4: Emerging Technology and Naval Warfare
As tensions between China and Japan began to ease this week over competing claims to the Senkakus/Diaoyus, Taiwan dispatched a dozen coast guard vessels to escort its own approximately 40-ship fishing fleet to the disputed islands, which it also claims as the Tiaoyutai. Upon arrival, some of the ships entered the islands’ territorial waters and engaged … Continue reading Senkaku Islands Shuffle
Photos: AP Update 8/16: The activists, crew, and media are all in custody, as Japan prepares to deport them. This action forestalls the sort of diplomatic crossfire the central government faced from nationalists at home and the Chinese government when it briefly held for trial a Chinese fisherman who rammed a coast guard vessel in … Continue reading A Voyage of Unintended Discovery (Update 8/16)
