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).
Blockade: An Imperfect Strategy | Center for International Maritime ...
May 1, 2019 · The Strategy Board utilized the United States Coast Survey’s records to examine the inlets, waterways, and ports of the South and decided that the primary ports of entry to blockade were Richmond, Norfolk, Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, New Orleans, and Galveston. The James and Elizabeth River channels leading to Richmond and ...
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.
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.
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 …
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.
Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations: National Security Law at …
Jul 14, 2022 · By Peter C. Combe II. In a recent piece for the Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC), Brent Stricker provided an excellent overview of legal considerations associated with the Marine Corps’ Force Design 2030, concepts for Stand-in-Forces (SIF) and Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO). Stricker provides a cogent introduction to targeting, deception and distinction ...
first island chain | Center for International Maritime Security
By Ching Chang. Between late 2016 and early 2017, there were several People’s Liberation Army (PLA) air and maritime maneuvers penetrating the so-called First Island Chain, including a deployment of the only People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) aircraft carrier Liaoning battle group, for a routine exercise in the South China Sea.It went through the Miyako Strait between Miyako Island and ...