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Navy Rebuts Recommendation to Close Red Hill Fuel Tanks in Hawaii
S&S FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii – The Hawaii Department of Health lacks the authority to issue an emergency order to close the Red Hill fuel tank facility, the Navy maintains in a document filed Wednesday.
The Navy referred to the state’s emergency order as …
China and the ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’
Richard J. Shinder, The Hill Following years of denial, and in the face of overwhelming evidence, a grudging bipartisan consensus is emerging that China represents more than simply good-faith strategic competition to the United States. Having been wel…
Fighting Comes Into Focus for the Space Force in 2022
Amanda Miller, AF Mag The leaders of the Space Force foresee the service continuing to become more “lethal” in 2022, inventing new tactical scenarios in its third year while maturing its organizational charts and carving out roles for outside entities…
China Pushing U.S. and Japan to Deepen Military Cooperation
A. Gale, WSJ The two allies are staging joint exercises to prepare for regional conflict that could spill over from Chinese aggression
HACHINOHE, Japan—It was the kind of exercise the U.S. or Japan would typically tackle by itself. On this December mo…
A Warfighting Imperative: Back to Basics for the Navy
Roncolato, Proceedings The service must think about what it will take to fight and win in a future great power war.
The enemy is coming. He is capable, determined, and well-equipped. And if the Navy is not focused on war-fighting as its central and pr…
China and Russia Military Cooperation’s Challenge to U.S. Power
WSJ Joint military exercises and technology sharing are seen as tools in to limit U.S. might abroad
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping oversaw an ambitious joint military exercise in China this summer, which along with repo…
China Unveils Plan to ‘Take Over’ Latin America
Joel Gehrke, WashExaminer Chinese Communist Party officials have unveiled an “action plan for cooperation” with Latin American countries that amounts to a “comprehensive” plan to influence the region and threaten U.S. interests, following a new summit…
Intelligence: Autonomous, Persistent, Indestructible
Strategy Page For over a decade AUVs (autonomous unmanned underwater vehicles) have been used commercially for underwater research. For a decade the military has been using AUVs to monitor underwater conditions to assist submarine operations or even d…