Strategic Underpinnings of Aegis BMD at Sea
The most recent U.S. national level strategic guidance is the January 2012 Department of Defense document entitled Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for …
The U.S. Navy’s strong commitment to a national ballistic missile defense is articulated in the 2007 tri-service A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower (CS-21), which explains, “Maritime ballistic missile …
The Bangladesh navy (BN) took possession of its largest warship on May 23, 2013 in Alameda, Calif., with the “hot transfer” of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis (WHEC 725). …
The recent situation in Northeast Asia has been extensively covered by Defense Media Network. Over the past several weeks, international attention has been focused on North Korea’s increasingly belligerent rhetoric …
Previous posts have focused on missile defense writ large and on ballistic missile defense more specifically, especially, as in the case of the AirSea Battle Concept, what Aegis ballistic missile …
In an article in Foreign Policy in October 2012, “100% Right 0% of the Time,” Micah Zenko quoted Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta as he described Pentagon priorities in …
The U.S. Navy’s solid-state laser program is heating up. The research effort has resulted in recent successful tests with a Laser Weapon System (LaWS) prototype fired from a U.S. Navy …
It has been 30 years since the missile cruiser Ticonderoga first took the Aegis system to sea. In 1982, Aegis was a vastly expensive anti-aircraft system entering a world in …
The previous post examined Iran as a threat, while this post explores U.S. and regional responses to Iran’s rapidly evolving ballistic missile development. It is important to note that the …
The widely discussed U.S. “pivot” to Asia is one of the strategic themes that will likely dominate at least the next several decades in U.S. military strategy, operational deployment, and …
