Chinese Ship Suspected of Raiding World War II Wrecks Detained
The Chinese dredger suspected of plundering two World War II Royal Navy shipwrecks last year has been detained by Malaysian maritime authorities.…
China’s Rise: WEST Day Three
The Chinese navy intrudes on the maritime rights of its neighbors, bullies other nations and is determined to build a…
USCG’s Adm. Papp on Arctic Operations and Caribbean Drug Runners
Even as the Coast Guard gets a grip on the Arctic, drug smugglers in the eastern Pacific are slipping through…
The Royal Navy’s Pacific Strike Force
Naval History Magazine, January 2013 After more than five exhausting years of global conflict, the British Commonwealth organized a powerful…
Combat Fleets: Final Lewis and Clark Launched
Proceedings, Jan. 2013 The U.S. Navy’s 14th and final Lewis and Clark –class dry-cargo/ammunition ship was delivered on 24 October.…
Appointment With Destiny in the North Atlantic
Naval History Magazine December, 2012 In 1943, the author’s uncle boarded his Liberty ship in Nova Scotia with a strong…
China’s 700 Ship Navy
China is building tandem maritime forces, blurring the line between military and civilian maritime missions. The new People’s Liberation Army…
The Soviet Navy’s Caribbean Outpost
Naval History Magazine, October 2012 After ‘defeat’ in 1962’s Cuban Missile Crisis forestalled a massive Soviet military buildup in the…
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…
False Flags: A History
The term False Flags has been used frequently related to the recent Taliban assault on Camp Bastion in Afghanistan. We…
Crash in the Strait of Hormuz
The USS Porter, an Arleigh Burke class destroyer, collided with a Panamanian flagged bulk oil tanker M/V Otowasan in the Strait…