The Central Blue: 2018 in Review
Two thousand eighteen has been another busy year for The Central Blue as we continue to pursue the…
Read More »The US & China: A Colder Peace or Thucydides’ Trap?
In late October, Southeast Asian navies held their first-ever joint exercises with their Chinese counterparts. The…
Read More »India Builds Out its ASW Capabilities: Indian Navy to Add Additional P-8I Aircraft
New Delhi. The Indian Navy is looking at acquiring an additional 10 Boeing P-8I maritime surveillance…
Read More »Monash’s Masterpiece: The Battle of Le Hamel and the 93 Minutes that Changed the World
Peter FitzSimmons has written a trilogy of books focused on Australia and the First World War.…
Read More »Parsing Trump’s Middle East Moves
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s warning that he would soon send his military forces into the…
Read More »Japan and Deterrence in Depth
In article which we published on July 9, 2014, we addressed the question of the evolving…
Read More »The F-35B: A War Winning Combat Capability
In an article published on November 17, 2010, Ed Timperlake provided a look ahead at the…
Read More »Japan Shapes its Perimeter Defense: F-35s, Aegis and Active Defense Capabilities
We have argued for a number of years that in response to both North Korea and…
Read More »Germany’s Last Mission: The Failed Voyage of U-234 to Japan
This book by Joseph Mark Scalia and published in 2000 by Naval Institute Press provides a…
Read More »The Sally B Year in Review
Sally B’s last air display of the 2018 display season was at the Battle of Britain…
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