Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label American naval strategy

ALL OF THE SUDDEN, THE U.S. NAVY IS ON TRACK TO GET A WHOLE LOT OF NEW SHIPS || 2021 (CREDITS- WARTHOG DEFENSE)

Five Reasons U.S. Aircraft Carriers Are Nearly Impossible To Sink ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Loren B. Thomson)

USS John C. Stennis ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / United States navy) Source- The National Interest Author- Loren B. Thomson Large-deck, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are the signature expression of American military power.  No other combat system available to U.S. warfighters comes close to delivering so much offensive punch for months at a time without requiring land bases near the action.  As a result, the ten carriers in the current fleet are in continuous demand from regional commanders -- so much so that extended overseas combat tours are becoming the norm.  ( Read on )

Russia and China Have Big Naval Dreams—And the US Navy Just Responded ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Dave Majumdar)

Image credits- Wikimedia Commons /United States Navy Source- The National Interest Author- Dave Majumdar The United States Navy has started work on plans for a new family of warships that will eventually replace the service’s current surface fleet. These new warships will be tailored to address a future global security environment that is expected to be quite different from the one the United States faces today. “The Navy is working on the requirements for the family of ships that will join the future fleet replacing several combatants to include the first DDG-51 class ships,” said Lt. Kara Yingling, a spokeswoman for the Navy’s Surface Warfare Directorate (N96). “The Navy began a Future Surface Combatant Capabilities Based Assessment (FSC CBA) to identify a holistic common analytic basis for coordinated development of a future combatant shipbuilding strategy." While the work is currently in its preliminary stages, the Navy expects to start developing a set

The End of U.S. Primacy in Asia ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Richard Javad Heydarian)

USS Howard, DDG-83 ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / United States Navy) Source- The National Interest Author-  Richard Javad Heydarian The world is steadily confronting the prospect of full-fledged Chinese domination in the world’s most important waterway, the South China Sea. America’s decades-long naval hegemony in Asia, as we know it, may soon vanish into thin air as a resurgent China reclaims primacy in the region. Though economically vulnerable, Beijing has lacked nothing in terms of geopolitical assertiveness. In a span of two months, China has dramatically redrawn the operational landscape in adjacent waters. China kicked off the year with a bang, conducting several test flights to its newly built airstrips in the Spratly chain of islands. This was followed by China’s decision to (once again) deploy a giant oil rig, Haiyang Shiyou 981, into Vietnamese-claimed waters in the South China Sea, just as Hanoi deliberated on a high-stakes leadership transition. W

Inside the U.S. Navy's Radical Plan for ‘Moore’s Law’ Warships ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Dave Majumdar)

USS Leity Gulf , CG-55 ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / United States Navy) Source- The National Interest Author- Dave Majumdar The U.S. Navy’s next generation surface combatants will be developed with information technologies baked into the core of their designs. While the Navy’s current generation of warships like the Ticonderoga-class cruisers and Arleigh Burke-class destroyers use digital information technology, they were designed in a different era when technology did not evolve as rapidly as today. The next generation replacement for those vessels will have to incorporate digital-information technologies from the outset—and will have to keep pace with rapid technical advancements. “That’s going to be a key part of the next generation of warships,” Adm. John Richardson, U.S. Navy’s chief of naval operations, told an audience at the American Enterprise Institute on February 12. “It will also be digitally native—or information native.” The Navy’s cu

The U.S. Navy's Master Plan to Dominate Russia and China ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Dave Majumdar)

USS Abraham Lincoln carrier battle group ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / United States Navy) Source- The National Interest Author- Dave Majumdar Earlier today the U.S. Navy’s top uniformed officer released a new plan to keep the sea service ahead of its Russian and Chinese rivals. While the new document will shape the Navy’s strategy, the service uses the term “design” to emphasize the its built-in flexibility to recognize the rapid rate of change occurring in both technology and the maritime domain. “This guidance frames the problem and a way forward, while acknowledging that there is inherent and fundamental uncertainty in both the problem definition and the proposed solution,” Adm. John Richardson, chief of naval operations. “As we move forward, we'll respect that we won't get it all right, and so we'll monitor and assess ourselves and our surroundings as we go. We'll learn and adapt, always getting better, striving to the limits of performanc

Designing a Navy for the Twenty-First Century ( Source- The National Interest / Author- James Holmes)

United States Naval personal ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / United States Navy) Source- The National Interest Author-  James Holmes So Admiral John Richardson, the chief of naval operations (CNO), a.k.a. the United States’ top uniformed naval officer, plans to unfurl a “campaign design” next month to guide the U.S. Navy’s future endeavors. We know very little about the draft document. Nevertheless, it’s worthwhile proffering a few thoughts in this largely fact-free setting—even while the draft remains under strict embargo. Some ideas animating the directive have begun to seep out of the Navy Staff. For one, the world is changing around the sea services—the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard—at a fast and quickening rate. While the U.S. Navy remains tops in knowledge and capability—the human and material sinews of sea power—for now, prospective antagonists are improving even more swiftly. They’re coming from behind. To visualize this way of thinking, im