The 50-Year Dilemma In Aircraft Carrier Design and the Future of ...
By Brent D. Sadler. June 2024 marks the 90 th year since commissioning the Ranger (CV-4), the first purpose-designed and built U.S. aircraft carrier. The Ranger stood on the legacies of several ships, most notably the converted collier Langley (CV-1), commissioned in 1922. A century of lessons learned from fleet experimentation during the interwar period, wartime experiences from World War Two ...
Pearl Harbor 1941: The First Energy War - Center for International ...
Jan 30, 2019 · This article originally featured in The Foreign Service Journal and is republished with permission. Read it in its original form here.. By Charles Maechling, Jr. In the summer of 1941, Japan had been at war on the mainland of Asia for four years.
Modern Naval Mines: Not Your Grandfather’s Weapons That Wait
Oct 7, 2021 · By Scott C. Truver. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael M. Gilday has good reason to recall the morning of 18 February 1991. In support of Operation Desert Storm, the Aegis guided-missile cruiser USS Princeton (CG-59) was patrolling off Failaka Island in the northern Persian Gulf, with a young Lieutenant Gilday serving as the tactical action officer (TAO).
What is a Corvette? And What Next? | Center for International …
The Coast Guard is in the process of procuring a new class to replace its Medium Endurance Cutters. The resulting ship is likely to be similar to the Floreal class (90 to 100 meters in length and 2500 to 3500 tons) but faster and will share sensors and some weapons with the Bertholf class and the Littoral Combat Ships.
Blockade: An Imperfect Strategy | Center for International Maritime ...
May 1, 2019 · Here’s some interesting food for thought.Say a blockade proves somewhat effective.What if the chinese decide that the only way to circumvent the blockade is to launch an all out offensive to reach the chokepoints themselves?Say the chinese consider anyone that cooperates with the US in enforcing such a blockade as an enemy and are fully justified in attacking them.So a rapid chinese ...
Chokepoints and Littorals Topic Week | Center for International ...
By Dmitry Filipoff. From June 1-12, 2020, CIMSEC featured a wide array of publications on strategic maritime chokepoints and littorals, submitted in response to our call for articles issued in partnership with the Brute Krulak Center for Innovation and Creativity of U.S. Marine Corps University. This turned out to be one of the most packed CIMSEC topic weeks in recent memory, and one of the ...
Navigating the Black Ditch: Risks in the Taiwan Strait
Dec 25, 2014 · As a Christmas gift from our friends at Risk Intelligence, we’re sharing two free articles from the publication Strategic Insights by CIMSECians. This first (also available in Pdf form), by myself, originally appeared in the September 2014 issue and provides a background and maritime risk analysis on the Taiwan Strait.. The author’s sole experience transiting the Taiwan Strait was not a ...
Breaking the Anti-Ship Missile Kill Chain
Feb 26, 2018 · By Dick Mosier. With the fielding of increasingly capable anti-ship missiles, the centerpiece of the next conflict with a near-peer maritime power will be warfare to deny the adversary the intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and target acquisition information required for successful anti-ship missile attack on surface combatants and capital ships.
Moving Forward: Evolution of the Maritime Operations Center
Oct 19, 2016 · The following article originally featured on MOC Warfighter and is republished with permission. Read it in its original form here.. By William Lawler, CAPT USN and Jonathan Will, CAPT USN (Ret.) After WWII, the U.S. Navy’s ability to plan and execute at the operational level of war (OLW), which links tactical actions with strategic objectives, progressively diminished.
Fighting DMO, Pt. 1: Defining Distributed Maritime Operations …
Feb 20, 2023 · By Dmitry Filipoff. Series Introduction “Why study tactics? It is the sum of the art and science of the actual application of combat power. It is the soul of our profession.” –Vice Admiral Arthur K. Cebrowski, foreword to the second edition of Fleet Tactics by Captain Wayne P. Hughes, Jr.. In the Western Pacific, the U.S. Navy is facing one …