Chinese Wrap Drills Around Taiwan, PLA Officials Vow to Never Stop Fighting Taiwan’s Independence
Chinese forces have ended several days of drills that surrounded Taiwan with military ships and aircraft starting on Monday.…
Retired General Cartwright on the History of Cyber Warfare
The following was excerpted from the U.S. Naval Institute conference report. Opening the U.S. Naval Institute’s 2012 annual history conference…
Kevin Mitnick Speaks
Former federal inmate now turned ethical hacker Kevin Mitnick spoke to the U.S. Naval Institute about network vulnerabilities, exploiting cultures…
The Senkaku Islands Dispute: Risk to U.S. Rebalancing in the Asia-Pacific?
In September a major diplomatic crisis erupted between China and Japan over a group of five uninhabited islets and three…
The Asymmetric Nature of Cyber Warfare
Proceedings, Oct. 2012 How likely is it that a conflict between two combatants involving both kinetic and cyber operations would…
World Naval Developments: Royal Navy’s Type 26: One Ship, Many Missions
Proceedings, Oct. 2012 In August, the Royal Navy released details of its next surface combatant, the Type 26, a modular…
Russia Delays Indian Carrier Again
The Russian navy was in parlous straits during the 1990s and the early 2000s. Suffering a series of spectacular disasters…
Combat Fleets: China Update
The ever-growing reach of China’s navy was demonstrated recently when two of its warships sailed through the Turkish Straits and…
The Unmanned Iranian Revolution
In an apparent reaction to the recently concluded multinational minesweeping exercise in the Persian Gulf and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s…
Trends in Hybrid and Irregular Warfare
Proceedings, September 2012 Savvy adversaries are more capable than ever of using high-tech gadgets and social media against the United…
Clearing Syrian WMDs Means 75K Troops and Massive Air Strikes
In July, Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid Mullalem declared that Syria’s stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons would go unused in…