U.S. Navy Conceals Nuclear Weapons Production in California : Indybay

Posted by Matt in March 3rd, 2010 | no comment

Published in Nuclear, Decades, Drawings, Francisco Bay Area, Indybay, Lockheed Martin, Nuclear Warheads, Nuclear Weapons Facility, Nuclear Weapons Production, Ordnance Plant, Photography, San Francisco Bay, San Francisco Bay Area, U S Navy, United States Navy

The United States Navy and Lockheed Martin have been concealing the assembly and movement of nuclear warheads in the densely populated San Francisco Bay Area for decades. The nuclear weapons facility is so secret that not only is photography strictly prohibited, but even making drawings or taking notes about the buildings from a public street [...]

China, S.Korea Flex Naval Muscle as U.S. Wanes

Posted by Matt in February 7th, 2010 | no comment

Published in China, Koreas, Military, Chosun Ilbo, Daily News, Fleets, Flex, Heritage Foundation, Last Tuesday, News China, Pacific Ocean, South-Korea, Submarine, submarines, U S Navy

China and South Korea are expanding their submarine fleets as the U.S. Navy shrinks its own. The conservative Heritage Foundation in a report last Tuesday said that by 2025 the number of U.S. submarines in the Pacific Ocean will fall from 30 to 27 while China will have 78 submarines and South Korea 26.
The [...]

The Chinese Navy’s Budding Overseas Presence

Posted by Matt in January 11th, 2010 | no comment

Published in China, Military, China Economic, Chinese Military, Chinese Navy, Creation, Deployment, Economic Interests, Global Nature, Global Presence, Gulf Of Aden, Overseas Presence, Reminder, South China Sea, Taiwan Straits, U S Navy, United States

For the United States, the extended Chinese naval deployment in the Gulf of Aden, as well as discussion of the creation of a Chinese naval base in the region, should serve as a reminder that the U.S. Navy will encounter the PLAN more and more–and not solely in the Taiwan Straits, South China Sea, and [...]

U.S. navy plots Arctic push

Posted by Matt in November 29th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Military, U.S., Anticipation, Arctic, Arctic Ocean, Department Of The Navy, Fleet Operations, Maritime Interests, National Security, Open Water, Roadmap, Strategic Plan, U S Navy

The U.S. navy is planning a massive push into the Arctic to defend national security, potential undersea riches and other maritime interests.
An “Arctic roadmap” by the Department of the Navy details a five-year strategic plan to expand fleet operations into the North in anticipation that the frozen Arctic Ocean will be open water in summer [...]

Why did the Attack on Pearl Harbor Happen?

Posted by Matt in November 4th, 2009 | no comment

Published in War, Aerial Attack, Asia World, Attack On Pearl Harbor, Causes Of War, December 7 1941, Formal Declaration, General Headquarters, Hawaiian Time, Intelligence Section, Japanese Aircraft, Japanese Navy, Midget Submarines, Military Trends, Minelayer, Pacific Fleet, Pearl Harbor Hawaii, Personnel Losses, U S Navy, U S Navy Battleships, world-war-II

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a preventive or pre-emptive strike to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from influencing the war the Empire of Japan was planning to wage in Southeast Asia.
World War I also started as a preventive or pre-emptive strike. Germany was concerned about future military trends concerning Russia and France that would [...]

U.S. – Japan relations chill.

Posted by Matt in October 22nd, 2009 | no comment

Published in Japan, Afghanistan, Chill, Dominant Political Party, Guam, Japan Relations, Japanese Government, Military Personnel, Secretary Of Defense, Secretary Of Defense Gates, Tokyo, U S Navy, U S Navy Ships, U S Secretary Of Defense

At present, the dominant political party in Japan has demanded that all U.S. military personnel be removed from Japan, that troop increases in Guam be discontinued, committed Japanese funding to the realignment effort be cancelled, and vessel fueling for U.S. Navy ships supporting operations in Afghanistan be discontinued in January, 2010. U.S. Secretary of Defense [...]

China’s Persian Gulf Strategy: Israel and a Nuclearizing Iran 2009 – The Jamestown Foundation

Posted by Matt in October 22nd, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Asia Times, Asian Energy, Associated Press, Balancing Act, Caspian Sea, Central Asia, China Views, Energy Security, Hegemony, Interconnection, Iran Pakistan, Jamestown, Jamestown Foundation, New Energy, Open Flow, Persian Gulf, Polar World, Silk Road, Strait Of Malacca, U S Navy

China needs Iran not only to keep an open flow of oil from the Persian Gulf, but also to serve as a node in the new energy Silk Road connecting the Persian Gulf, Caspian Sea and Central Asia to China. In what has been coined as an Asian Energy Security Grid—or Pipelineistan (Asia Times Online, [...]

This Week at War: China Rules the Waves | Foreign Policy

Posted by Matt in October 16th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Acquisition, Adversaries, Alliance System, Assumptions, China Rules, diplomacy, Domination, Foreign Policy, Indian Navy, Indian Oceans, Kaplan, Liberation Army Navy, Major Component, Midst, Next Decade, Political Strategies, Rise Of China, Shipbuilding, U S Navy, Waves

Kaplan asserts, “China is in the midst of a shipbuilding and acquisition craze that will result in the People’s Liberation Army Navy having more ships than the U.S. Navy sometime in the next decade.” Since 1945, U.S. diplomatic and political strategies in Asia have been predicated on U.S. naval domination in the western Pacific and [...]

Robots: The most important weapons development since the atomic bomb | American Scientist

Posted by Matt in October 14th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Military Tech, American Scientist, Atomic Bomb, Chief Petty Officer, Explosive Devices, Gizmo, Hail Of Bullets, High Resolution Camera, Human Family Members, Insurgents, Irobot, Machine Guns, Mechanical Arm, Miller Company, Navy Chief Petty Officer, Packbot, Pentagon Official, Robots, Rocket Launchers, U S Navy, Virtues

By 2005 there were about 5,000 robots in Iraq. One of the most common was iRobot’s Packbot, a lawnmower-sized gizmo with a mechanical arm and a high-resolution camera, which was often sent ahead to scout for insurgents and to disarm improvised explosive devices. Another is the Foster-Miller company’s SWORDS—a remote-controlled miniature tank that can be [...]

China’s Aircraft Carrier Kill Weapon – U.S. Naval Institute

Posted by Matt in September 19th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Aircraft Carrier, Aircraft Carriers, Asbm, Ballistic Missile, Blog, China Navy, Chinese Navy, Confrontations, Conjecture, Dong Feng, Hot Zones, Information Dissemination, Military Analysts, Naval Affairs, South China Sea, Surface Forces, Target, Tensions, Territorial Claims, U S Navy

With tensions already rising due to the Chinese navy becoming more aggressive in asserting its territorial claims in the South China Sea, the U.S. Navy seems to have yet another reason to be deeply concerned.
After years of conjecture, details have begun to emerge of a “kill weapon” developed by the Chinese to target and destroy [...]