Center for International Maritime Security | Fostering the …
WEBArticles Due: October 21, 2024 Topic Week Dates: November 11-15, 2024 Article Length: 1,500-3,000 Words Submit to: Content@cimsec.org By Dmitry Filipoff. PRC President Xi Jinping has instructed the People’s Liberation Army to be able to invade Taiwan by 2027.
Symmetric Warfare – The Return to Symmetry
WEBUsing all available means and conditions to throw an opponent out of balance is a core of Liddell Hart’s indirect strategy. So perhaps returning to symmetry and conceptually focusing on symmetric warfare would help ease understanding of complex problems related to ship roles and design. Asymmetry is a strategy of weak against strong.
Chokepoints and Littorals Topic Week | Center for International ...
WEBFrom 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 ...
Battlespace Awareness Tools Are Central to Fleet Readiness
WEBDec 6, 2021 · By Michael Tiefel and Andrew Orchard. In his book Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations, Capt.(ret) Wayne Hughes states: “At sea the essence of tactical success has been the first application of effective offensive force.” 1 Capt. Hughes’ warfighting axiom – applying offensive force first – is the distinct advantage information warfare (IW) intends to deliver, and it is predicated on ...
There Are No Strategic Chokepoints | Center for International …
WEBJun 3, 2020 · By Captain Jamie McGrath, USN (ret.) Keys to the World. Naval theorist Milan Vego opens a chapter on chokepoint control with a quote from British Admiral Sir John Fisher, who stated that there are “five keys to the world. The Strait of Dover, the Straits of Gibraltar, the Suez Canal, the Straits of Malacca, and the Cape of Good Hope.
War is a Learning Competition: How a Culture of Debrief Can …
WEBJun 30, 2020 · The following article originally published on Over the Horizon and is republished with permission. Read it in its original form here.. By Tim “Diesel” Causey. Executive Summary. The Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) community continues to …
Undersea Cables and the Challenges of Protecting Seabed Lines of ...
WEBMar 15, 2018 · A thought-provoking article. Subsea cables are notoriously difficult to locate during inspection and repair operations. For this to succeed as a plan of attack, the attacker will need to do a significant amount of preparation (site survey work and access cable route data in the hands of government, private companies and individuals, and differentiate between live and out of service lines still ...
Reinforcing China’s Malacca Dilemma - Center for International ...
WEBSep 15, 2016 · China has been pressing to complete the Gwadar port in Pakistan and build the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), allowing it to be connected over land to an Indian Ocean port. Gwadar and CPEC allow China to circumvent the Strait of Malacca which can be blockaded by rival navies in the event of …
1980s Maritime Strategy Series - Center for International Maritime …
WEBIn 2021, CIMSEC launched an interview series on the U.S. Navy’s 1980s Maritime Strategy. Through discussions with those helped conceive and advocate for this historic strategy, important lessons on the maritime dimension of great power competition emerged. The 1980’s Maritime Strategy was published in unclassified form in January 1986, and ...
The Global Operating Model’s Contact and Blunt Layers: …
WEBJan 6, 2022 · By Paul Lyons and Jon Solomon. The 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS) heralded the end of the Department of Defense’s quarter century of emphasis on countering transnational violent extremist organizations and rogue regional powers.