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Outsourcing Security at Sea—The Return of Private Maritime-Security Companies and Their Role in Twenty-First-Century Maritime Security
Get PDFTracing the historical, political, and economic dynamics behind the medieval emergence and eventual disappearance in the nineteenth century of mercenary naval forces illuminates the modern development of private maritime-security companies to address piracy
China Maritime Report No. 38: PLAN Anti-Submarine Warfare Aircraft - Sensors, Weapons, and Operational Concepts
Get PDFThe PLA Navy recognizes the importance of a robust anti-submarine warfare (ASW) system to counter adversaries seeking undersea asymmetric advantages, and its aviation component is a key part of that system. This report discusses the PLAN\u27s efforts to improve its airborne ASW platforms and equipment and describes how PLAN-affiliated sources discuss the employment of those assets. The PLAN\u27s significant buildup and growing employment of fixed-wing maritime patrol aircraft in recent years are key indicators of the importance it attaches to the airborne ASW mission set, as is its push to acquire improved sensors on both fixed and rotary wing ASW platforms. PLAN-affiliated authors show that its academic and operational components are coordinating to explore best practices and maximize the effectiveness of these assets across a wide array of ASW scenarios.https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cmsi-maritime-reports/1038/thumbnail.jp
CMSI Note #5: Admiral Wang Renhua: Exemplifying Jointness and Oversight for China’s Navy amid Xi’s Grade-and-Rank Reforms
Get PDFCMSI’s Perspectives and Key Takeaways: Admiral Wang Renhua’s promotion is the latest indication of efforts to synchronize grade-andrank promotions at the full admiral/general level (three stars in the PLA). Wang’s role may be best understood as a military loyalty enforcement boss. A key responsibility for Wang may well be to root out and destroy Xi’s enemies within the PLA. A potential component of Wang’s portfolio in the navy realm could be to maintain a tight grip on the wardrooms aboard China’s growing fleet of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs). Having Wang serve in the Navy, and currently as head of the CMC’s powerful Politics and Law Commission, helps the PLA shift to a more joint force as part of Xi’s post-2015 reforms. Wang is not originally from the Navy and does not represent the institutional interests of the PLA Navy. It is not uncommon for a PLA Army political officer to switch uniforms to the Navy and retain them from that time forward, as Wang has done.https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cmsi-notes/1004/thumbnail.jp
U.S. Freedom of Navigation and Forward Presence Operations in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait, October 2015 to July 2024
Get PDFA tabular compilation of U.S. freedom of navigation and forward presence operations, including combined naval exercises and U.S. aircraft carrier operations, in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait between October 2015 and July 2024. Prepared by Raul (Pete) Pedrozo & James Kraska
Enhancing Accountability in Cyberspace Through a Three-Tiered International Governance Regime
Get PDFThe Great Power Competition perpetuates the inability to reach a universal consensus on how to resolve normative ambiguity on the application of international law to cyberspace. Adhering to a strategy of ambiguity, the United States and its closest allies have been holding their rival States accountable for “irresponsible State behavior” in cyberspace, based on flawed legitimacy, as reflected in a weakened normative layer, and the national U.S. attribution process. Embracing collective attribution has not cured the flaws. The upshot is a poor framework for holding States accountable and an enduring vicious cycle. This article calls on the United States and its closest allies to break this vicious cycle by formulating an international “workable consensus” that underpins a three-tiered governance regime of “Triple I”: an International Cyber Law Convention, to ensure normative clarity; an International Cyber Security Initiative, as a cyber security arm to bolster deterrence through collaboration in defense and resilience; and a centralized International Cyber Attribution Mechanism that would produce a legitimate and credible claim for attributing responsibility to specific States. Acknowledging the obstacles and challenges, this regime could be established incrementally, garnering legitimacy over time. The International Cyber Attribution Mechanism ICAM would be prioritized, serving as the keystone for enhancing accountability and an important confidence-building measure for completing the entire governance regime
CMSI Translations #10: Transformation, How Significant is the Role of an Airfield Station?
Get PDFIn recent years, with the expansion of mission tasks, multiple services and multiple aircraft types organizing training at the same Southern Theater Command Navy aviation airfield station has gradually become the norm. In the face of increasingly heavy combat training support tasks, they closely monitor powerful enem(ies), accelerate transformation and construction, and have achieved a historic leap from single aircraft-type support to multiple aircraft-types support, from small flying periods of short-term deployed training support to large flying periods of regularized deployed training support, and from daytime simple meteorological conditions support to allweather support, with core support capabilities being comprehensively enhanced.https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cmsi-translations/1009/thumbnail.jp
Laying the Groundwork for Sims—Albert P. Niblack as the First USN Inspector of Target Practice, and the Gunnery Revolution of the U.S. Navy
Get PDFVice Admiral Niblack was a driving force behind the U.S. Navy’s modernization and institutional development at the turn of the last century, even though it is his contemporary and colleague William Sims who is most remembered for that legacy
The Fall and Rise of French Sea Power: France’s Quest for an Independent Naval Policy, 1940–1963
Get PDFChapter 10: Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Weapons
Get PDFThe Commander’s Handbook on the Law of Naval Operations is used in the United States and throughout the world as a restatement of U.S. doctrinal law positions on matters affecting the operations of the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Coast Guard. Judge advocates and legal advisers have occasion to conduct deeper research to identify the context and source of the rules reflected in the Commander’s Handbook. Responding to this need, an Annotated Supplement to The Commander’s Handbook was produced in 1997 and published as volume 73 of International Law Studies. In the intervening decades, international law has evolved, and the underlying sources and context have grown considerably. Judge advocates have long used the Annotated Supplement as a resource alongside the Commander’s Handbook and as a point of departure for further inquiry. This 2024 updated Annotated Supplement excerpts numerous U.S. government sources to provide clarity and fidelity to the text of the Handbook, including U.S. legislation and executive branch policy proclamations and the Department of Defense Law of War Manual
Chapter 7: The Law of Neutrality
Get PDFThe Commander’s Handbook on the Law of Naval Operations is used in the United States and throughout the world as a restatement of U.S. doctrinal law positions on matters affecting the operations of the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Coast Guard. Judge advocates and legal advisers have occasion to conduct deeper research to identify the context and source of the rules reflected in the Commander’s Handbook. Responding to this need, an Annotated Supplement to The Commander’s Handbook was produced in 1997 and published as volume 73 of International Law Studies. In the intervening decades, international law has evolved, and the underlying sources and context have grown considerably. Judge advocates have long used the Annotated Supplement as a resource alongside the Commander’s Handbook and as a point of departure for further inquiry. This 2024 updated Annotated Supplement excerpts numerous U.S. government sources to provide clarity and fidelity to the text of the Handbook, including U.S. legislation and executive branch policy proclamations and the Department of Defense Law of War Manual