Deterrence 2027: Keeping the Threat at Bay
2024年11月18日 · By James Wirtz. The year 2027 has been designated as a “year of maximum danger,” especially for the inhabitants of the island of Taiwan. This is not the first time, however, that a critical benchmark has emerged for American strategists and planners.
Readiness for Pacific War 2027 - Center for International Maritime …
By Dmitry Filipoff. From November 11-18, 2024, CIMSEC featured writing submitted in response to our Call for Articles on readiness for Pacific war in 2027.. Authors covered a wide variety of topics, including force design, operational concepts, and strategic deterrence.
Does it Matter if You Call it a Wargame? Actually, yes.
2024年12月16日 · By Phillip Pournelle. Much of what the Department of Defense calls wargaming is not actually wargaming and this abuse of nomenclature has real consequences.Wargame-like activities, if conducted properly, are necessary and valuable, but the Department needs to do a better job of differentiating between true wargames, and wargame-like activities.
Rendezvous | Center for International Maritime Security
2024年12月4日 · 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.
False Flag | Center for International Maritime Security
2024年12月2日 · 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.
Breaking the Naval Impasse on the U.S. Icebreaker Program
2024年12月17日 · Here’s how to “Break the Naval Impasse on the U.S. Icebreaker Program” Step 1: Fire, not ask to resign, but “fire”, every 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-Star Admiral within 10 bureaucratic miles of the unending line of boondoggles coming from the DOD in general and the Pentagon in particular (the Army and Air Force should do the same, but that’s another subject).
Fighting DMO, Pt. 1: Defining Distributed Maritime Operations …
2023年2月20日 · 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 …
CIMSEC’s 2024 Holiday Reading List
2024年12月17日 · By the CIMSEC Team. Happy holidays shipmates! The CIMSEC team has once again put our heads together for what is our fifth annual Holiday Reading List.
Prepare for the Spectrum of Competition and Warfighting
2023年11月2日 · Flotilla Notes Series. By Doug Kettler. In the era of renewed great power competition, calls for reform have resulted from a perception that the U.S. military has lost its warfighting focus. 1 However, in this era, warfighting is more than delivering “warheads on foreheads.” 2 There is a spectrum of interdependent functions that each organization must cultivate to ensure competitive focus.
Moving Forward: Evolution of the Maritime Operations Center
2016年10月19日 · 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.