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TDI Friday Read: Naval Air Power
A rare photograph of the current Russian Navy aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov (ex-Riga, ex-Leonid Brezhnev, ex-Tblisi) alongside her unfinished sister, the now Chinese PLAN Liaoning (former...
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TDI Friday Read: Links You May Have Missed, 02 March 2018
We are trying something new today, well, new for TDI anyway. This edition of TDI Friday Read will offer a selection of links to items we think may be of interest to our readers. We found them...
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SINKEX
U.S.S. Racine, serving as a target ship for a sinking exercise on 12 July 2018. [YouTube Screencap/The Drive] The U.S. Navy has uploaded video of a recent sinking exercise (SINKEX) conducted during the...
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Chinese “Pirates” Accused Of Plundering WWII-Era Shipwrecks
A crane barge allegedly pulling up scrap metal from a World War II wreck in the Java Sea. [The Daily Mail] An investigation by the British newspaper The Daily Mail has alleged that 10 British...
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Japan’s Grand Strategy and Military Forces (I)
[Source: Consulate-General of Japan, Sydney] This is the first in a series of Orders of Battle (OOB) posts, which will cover Japan, the neighboring and regional powers in East Asia, as well as the...
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Japan’s Grand Strategy and Military Forces (II)
Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) ships and the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group conduct Annual Exercise 2016. [U.S. Navy] In my first post on Japan’s grand strategy, I examined its...
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Japan’s Grand Strategy and Military Forces (III)
[John Hopkins Applied Physics Lab] In my previous post, I looked at the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) basic strategic missions of defending Japan from maritime invasion and securing the...
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Japan’s Grand Strategy and Military Forces (IV)
Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) Helicopter Destroyer JS Izumo. [Japan Ministry of Defense} In my previous post, I took a look at the roots of the extremely close level of integration...
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Vessels of the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force
JMSDF Destroyers JS INAZUMA (DD 105)and JS SUZUTSUKI (DD117)) commanded by Rear Admiral Tatsuya Fukuda, Commander Escort Flotilla 4, sail in the Pacific for Indo Southeast Asia Deployment 2018...
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Japan’s Grand Strategy And The Japanese Air Self Defense Force (JASDF) (I)
Japanese Air Self Defense Force (JASDF) F-15 at Chitose Air Base, Japan in 2014. [Suga/Wikimedia] In the previous post on Japan’s grand strategy, I observed its focus on the maritime domain and...
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