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 ...
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 ...
NWP 3 is the first in a series of planned single-digit publications focused on fleet warfare at the OLW, that conceptual arena where tactical activity is orchestrated for strategic effect. Like all doctrine publications, NWP 3 is authoritative but not prescriptive, and requires judgment in …
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.
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).
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 ...
What is a Corvette? And What Next? | Center for International …
Corvettes, as a type, essentially disappeared from the English naval lexicon until 1939. The term was kept alive in some navies (including the French, German, and Italian) as a rank that translated corvette-captain, a rank generally equal to Lieutenant Commander. World War II.
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.
Radioactive Tsunamis: Nuclear Torpedo Drones and their Legality …
Sep 4, 2023 · By Raul (Pete) Pedrozo. Introduction . Russia and North Korea are both fielding a novel type of naval weapon – nuclear-armed torpedo drones. These new weapons introduce a variety of strategic and operational challenges that further complicate a …
25 October 1944: As the light grew, the pagoda-like superstructures of. 4 Japanese battleships, 8 cruisers, and 11 destroyers appeared over the horizon. Johnston’s task unit, dubbed Taff y Three, were all that stood between the Japanese force and …