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Zach Ota is an infantry officer and an international affairs officer in the Marine Corps. LtCol Ota is also a non-resident fellow at the Brute Krulak Center for Innovation and Future Warfare who advances issues involving maritime security, alliances and partnerships, and military history in the Pacific. LtCol Ota currently serves as a future ...
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 ...
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 …
Undersea Cables and the Challenges of Protecting Seabed Lines of ...
Mar 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 ...
Fiction Week | Center for International Maritime Security
Fiction Week. Stories Due: November 18, 2024. Week Dates: December 2-6, 2024. Story Length: 1,5000-3,000 Words. Submit to: [email protected]. By Dmitry Filipoff. Fiction has long served as a powerful means for exploring hypotheticals and envisioning alternatives. In annual tradition, CIMSEC will be running a series of short stories looking to ...
The Nature of Sea Control and Sea Denial
Sep 12, 2018 · There are many misperceptions about sea control. First, the sea control is only a means to secure the privilege of utilizing the maritime space. And subsequently, the major utilization of the maritime space is maritime transportation. We therefore may conclude that the freedom of navigation or the maritime communication lines should be the true ...
Symmetric Warfare – The Return to Symmetry
Using 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.
Center for International Maritime Security | Fostering the …
Oct 18, 2024 · “Ahoy Mateys!” Reading last week about the joint Russian-Chinese naval exercise “Maritime Cooperation 2012” in the Yellow Sea, I was interested to learn that the Russians insisted bridge-to-bridge and exercise communications be conducted solely in Russian. This is further indication that the exercise, the largest for the two navies since 2005, is a sign of normalizing ties rather than ...
The Strategic Role of Tactical Maritime Aerostats in Ensuring ...
By Matt McNiel. Increasing geopolitical tensions in the South China Sea have created a strategic impetus for the United States and its regional allies to reassess what, how, where, and when a real or perceived threat becomes imminent to strategic interests in this region of the world.
Sea Control 548 – Maritime Competition in the Mediterranean …
Sep 21, 2024 · Links. 1. “ Mare Nostrum Revisited: Maritime Competition in the Mediterranean,” by Dr. Jeremy Stöhs and Dr. Sebastian Bruns, War on the Rocks, June 13, 2024. Jared Samuelson is Co-Host and Executive Producer of the Sea Control podcast. Contact him at [email protected]. This episode was edited and produced by Marie Williams.