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Episode 5: World War I
No full textIn this episode Jon O\u27Gorman talks with guests John Maurer, James Holmes and David Stone about several topics. We start with the causes of World War I and how it is easy to start a war but not stop one. We speak about the concept of peripheral strategies and if those type of cumulative campaigns can win against a continental opponent. We then look at the saltwater side of the war and how decisions at sea effect decisions made on land. We explore how Germany\u27s strategic options both at sea and on land are limited. We discuss problems of the culminating point of victory for Germany vs. Russia and with the allies as a whole. We end with a shift to the contemporary realm and how this conflict has lessons learned and dire warnings about the war in Ukraine and the rise of communist China today.https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/profiles-in-strategy/1004/thumbnail.jp
Drawing the Cyber Baseline: The Applicability of Existing International Law to the Governance of Information and Communication Technologies
Get PDFCyberspace is often treated as a new domain of State activity in international legal discourse. This has led to the assumption that for international law to apply to cyber operations carried out by States or non-State actors, cyber-specific State practice and opinio juris must be demonstrated. This article challenges that assumption on five different bases. First, it argues that rules of general international law are generally applicable to all domains, areas, or types of State activity. In their interpretation and application to purported new domains, limitations to their scope of application cannot be presumed. Second, this article demonstrates that the concept of domain is not aimed at excluding certain domains from international law’s scope of application. Third, in any event, cyberspace is not a domain or a space, in the way that land, air, sea, or outer space are. Rather, it is a combination of multilayered information and communications technologies operating across different domains. Fourth, and relatedly, international law is technology-neutral, in that it applies to all technology unless stated otherwise. Fifth, the framing of certain international legal rules as policy recommendations cannot displace existing international law. On those bases, we conclude that existing international law applies as a whole and by default to States’ use of information and communications technologies
Innovation, Interrupted—Next-Generation Surface-Combatant Design
Get PDFThree ships designed in the 1930s that fought in the Pacific theater during the early months of America’s involvement in World War II represent three different ship design approaches that continue to create dissonance in the U.S. Navy’s current ship-design processes. The Navy must transition to a next-generation surface-combatant-design process to accommodate the future warfighting environment
China Maritime Report No. 20: The PLA Army Amphibious Force
Get PDFThe PLA Army’s (PLAA) amphibious units would serve as the core of any joint force charged with invading Taiwan. As a result of the 2017 reforms, the PLAA now possesses six amphibious combined arms brigades distributed across three group armies (the 72nd, 73rd, and 74th). During a cross-strait invasion, these brigades would likely receive support from other elements of the group armies to which they belong. This could include fire support, air defense, air transport, aerial fire support, and electronic warfare/cyber-attack.https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cmsi-maritime-reports/1019/thumbnail.jp
The Fortieth Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
Get PDFThe UN Convention on the Law of the Sea opened for signature on December 10, 1982. In commemoration of this important date, International Law Studies opens its 40th Anniversary Forum with this keynote compendium essay from Bernard Oxman.
The most basic object of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea was to replace a system of conflicting unilateral claims of right with global agreement on the rules of the law of the sea and the process for their implementation, interpretation, and application. That remains the Convention’s most significant contribution to the rule of law in international affairs. Its full realization demands nothing less than global ratification
Luce Lighthouse Letter Image
No full textFig 1. Whell revolving at such a rate as to show a luminous circle about the fixed light, as a center/ The arms to be made of gas pip, to combine strength and lightness, & properly braced. The wheel to revolve on a frame work constructed near the fixed light; and in a plane at right angles to the line of approach. To be actuated by an electric motor.
Fig. 2.Light: Incandescent (or oil lamp, or gimbals) oscillating slowly thro’ ab arc of 160”. It would be absolutely possible to confound such a light, with any other now in use. Clockwork or electric motor, or steam powerhttps://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/torpedo/1005/thumbnail.jp
Collision Head Experiment 1904
No full textReport on a test of an experimental torpedo collision head manufactured by E. W. Bliss Company. Also included are photographs of the collision head after it was fired against a stone wall.
Collision head experiment 1904https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/torpedo/1024/thumbnail.jp
Naval Mines and Detonators 1904 (3 of 4)
No full textCyanotypes of naval mines and the detonators used inside them.https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/torpedo/1029/thumbnail.jp
Wooden Collision Head 1905 Jan 7 (1 of 3)
No full textReport from Albert Gleaves, Inspector of Ordnance at NTS, regarding an experiment of A wooden collision head. The torpedo with the wooden collision head is shown on the pier at the Torpedo Station.https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/torpedo/1036/thumbnail.jp