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Tag Archives: maritime
Indonesia and India vs China, and Obama
Robert Kaplan takes his message to the New York Times as President Obama takes his to South Asia. A quote: THE 20th century saw great, land-centric Army deployments to Europe. George W. Bush unwittingly continued this tendency with great, land-centric … Continue reading
Kaplan: Make way for China
Robert D. Kaplan supplies a chapter on Chinese naval strategy to a Center for a New American Security report entitled China’s Arrival: A Strategic Framework for a Global Relationship. Much of the chapter is based on his previous work in … Continue reading
Japan’s un-carrier
Pictured above is Japan’s Hyuga-class “helicopter destroyer” (different angle) alongside the USS George Washington (see opposite angle here). It is hard to see from this angle but there is a significant size difference. The George Washington is a Nimitz class … Continue reading
Interactive Ship Traffic Map
Amazing map of ship and port traffic using AIS and accurate up to one hour. Brought you by the U of A Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering. This project is so amazingly useful, I don’t know what to … Continue reading
Making pirates hostes humani generis again
Image from Nick Humphries “[L]ast year less than one-half of one percent of ships transiting the Horn of Africa were attacked, and most of those attacks were not successful.” Despite those low odds Max Boot goes on to argue in … Continue reading
Still waiting for the navy’s Boyd moment
With a swipe at Our Bob, Tom Barnett links to an article in Parameters on The End of Seapower as we know it. The article, written by a captain of the USCG, is a laundry list of complaints about the … Continue reading
Keep away from these lighthouses
Imagine steering a ship along the desolate northern Russian coast; an endless succession of rocky outcroppings, half-hidden by polar fog. Worse yet, imagine manning one of these frozen outposts, hundreds of miles from civilization and technology. The Communist party of … Continue reading
On the potential Japanese naval dispatch to Somalia
My first reaction to hearing about prime minister Aso’s push to get the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force in the Gulf of Aden helping to combat piracy was _bandwagoning_. Here is a typical example of Japan showing international leadership… six … Continue reading
Cable repair ships of the world
After reading about the “latest incident of undersea cables being cut”:http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/12/mediterranean-c.html (causing fourteen countries to lose access to the Internet) I found a link describing the fifty “cable ships”:http://www.iscpc.org/information/Cableships_Page.htm that operate around the world. There are some pretty big and … Continue reading