False Flag | Center for International Maritime Security
Dec 2, 2024 · Fiction Week. By Tyler Totten. 880 km south of Midway Atoll, 11:15 (GMT-11) “… tensions continue to escalate, some say war is inevitable. White House Press Secretary Jones insisted talks between US and PRC officials still show signs of progress.
Rendezvous | Center for International Maritime Security
Dec 4, 2024 · Fiction Week. By David Strachan [T]he universe is an ocean, the moon is the Diaoyu Islands, Mars is Huangyan Island. If we don’t go there now even though we’re capable of doing so, then we will be blamed by our descendants.
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 …
Annual Fiction Week Concludes on CIMSEC
Dec 9, 2024 · By Dmitry Filipoff. Last week CIMSEC featured short stories submitted in response to our Call for Fiction.. Authors explored a wide variety of futures and scenarios.
Top Issues Facing the U.S. Navy: A Compendium from The …
By Capt. Gerard D. Roncolato (ret.), Capt. Scott Mobley (ret.), and CDR Paul Giarra (ret.) Introduction. This paper presents the collated opinions from participants in the Madison Sea Power Workshops, an informal gathering of navalists whose purpose is to explore key issues facing American sea power as we shift to an era of great power competition.
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 ...
The Impending Tide | Center for International Maritime Security
Dec 5, 2024 · Fiction Week. By Mike Hanson. Indonesia 2034. The destruction was absolute. As far as the eye could see, detritus covered the landscape until it faded into the green hills in the distance that stemmed the surging tide.
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).
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.
Depth from Above: Reinventing Carrier ASW
Oct 12, 2022 · By Ben DiDonato. With the return of great power competition, the threat posed by hostile submarines has garnered renewed attention.Russia’s submarine fleet in particular has been regarded as a serious threat for decades and its latest SSNs are reportedly nearly as quiet as their American counterparts.Similarly, while China’s nuclear submarines have yet to reach this level, China’s access ...