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Should U.S. Allies in Asia Get Their Own Nukes?
The prospects for the U.S. being able to project is power and defend its allies in Asia are not good. The U.S. security guarantee – known as “extended deterrence” – was never really tested in Asia the way it was on a daily basis in Europe during the Cold War. Understandable, since Asia was not the global center of strategic gravity. But it is now. Military modernization and expansion by all the players is causing greater friction between the tectonic plates of Japan, China, South Korea, and the United States, testing the limits of U.S. extended deterrence, which currently minimizes the role of nuclear weapons. However, the very foundations of this concept were designed to deal with a land, European theater, not the Asian maritime environment.
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Undersea Technologies Are Threat, Opportunity
A new generation of technologies is emerging with the potential to change the nature of undersea warfare, warns one naval analyst, and the US Navy needs to not just develop and employ the new tools, but also needs to change its operational concepts.
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Transparent Sea: the Unstealthy Future of Submarines
Submarines have been America’s invisible advantage since World War II. But the oceans are getting more transparent.
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The Hunt for Red October Gets Easier
Today's submarines are in danger of becoming increasingly vulnerable as “game changers” in undersea warfare make it easier to detect them, a new report says.
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New Era in Undersea Warfare Requires Novel Approaches
Exploitation of new technologies and operational techniques will be essential for the U.S. Navy’s undersea warfare forces to maintain the superiority that the Navy has maintained in the decades since World War II.
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Growing Teeth: Upgunning The Surface Navy
Last week, the US Navy made waves by announcing two bold ideas for the surface fleet: a new concept of warfighting called “distributed lethality” — “If it floats, it fights” — and a new name for the controversial Littoral Combat Ship — now called a “frigate.”