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 ...
Navigating the Black Ditch: Risks in the Taiwan Strait
Dec 25, 2014 · At its deepest in the Penghu Channel the strait reaches 177 m and is a mere 25 m deep at its shallowest near the centre of the strait’s southern mouth – the ‘Taiwan Shoal’ or ‘Taiwan Banks’. Seasonal environmental variation has a large impact on the navigability of the strait. The China Coastal Current flows southward in the western ...
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.
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 ...
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 …
Battlespace Awareness Tools Are Central to Fleet Readiness
Dec 6, 2021 · By Michael Tiefel and Andrew Orchard. In his book Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations, Capt.(ret) Wayne Hughes states: “At sea the essence of tactical success has been the first application of effective offensive force.” 1 Capt. Hughes’ warfighting axiom – applying offensive force first – is the distinct advantage information warfare (IW) intends to deliver, and it is predicated on ...
Undersea Cables and the Challenges of Protecting Seabed Lines of ...
Mar 15, 2018 · A thought-provoking article. Subsea cables are notoriously difficult to locate during inspection and repair operations. For this to succeed as a plan of attack, the attacker will need to do a significant amount of preparation (site survey work and access cable route data in the hands of government, private companies and individuals, and differentiate between live and out of service lines still ...
Navy Information Warfare — What is it? - Center for International ...
Sep 13, 2016 · The message states Information Warfare’s mission is: “providing sufficient overmatch in command and control, understanding the battlespace and adversaries, and projecting power through and across all domains.”. This description of the Information Warfare mission is substantially different from the definition of Information Operations ...
Put the Commander back in Commander’s Intent
May 13, 2020 · The Critical Role of Commander’s Intent. Not only can we get better at writing intent, we must do so in a manner that enables our up-echelon commanders to take advantage of the creativity, ingenuity, and style of their subordinate commanders. First, commanders must take back the responsibility for thinking about and crafting their own intent.
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