For my thesis, my most important finding was America's traditional asymmetric advantages enjoyed over China, being technological superiority and experience, will almost cease to exist over the next 15 years, but more impactful ones will endure!

Lets talk about it. We have to accept that the PLA will more likely than not be a direct military peer to the United States before the second half of the 21st Century. That said, our more enduring and impactful asymmetric advantages are not going anywhere. Those being geography and alliances.

In my opinion, and not minimizing the part played by other branches:
Nasrallah's speech has confirmed beyond a reasonable doubt America's conventional deterrent. Deploying 2 carrier strike groups to an international crisis has historically been our tool for expressing national.. intnet. And with crisis in Israel and the Middle East at large, the surge in posture (and subsequent retaliatory strikes) has cemented, in my mind, that the United States is still MORE than capable of rapidly deploying military forces into a region to signal to an adversary that

Now that the semester is over and I can breathe, this is a short(?) thread on a presentation I did for my China class. I was able to pick any topic, so naturally, I wanted to investigate how the China views the United State's reorientation back to interstate-strategic competiton My career aspirations are to assist in navigating US national security policy in the Indo-Pacific in whatever capacity I am afforded. I have a real good grasp on what *we* are doing but my understanding of China's reaction/interpretation were quite lacking (and still are, mostly)

Ground launched NSM, OpFires, PrSM, SM-6 Blk 1B, LRHW, surface/ground launched Maritime Strike Tomahawk, NSM, SM-6 Blk 1B, air-launched AGM-158A/B/B-2/C/D, OSuW 2.0/HALO, and subsurface launched CPS/MST/whatever the hell Rapid Dragon is dotted throughout the first island chain helps me sleep at night.
It seems that a lot of the mainstream narrative wrt a Pacific conflict is stuck in pre 2018, still believing that the US will operate in WESTPAC in the same manner that brought the last 2 decades of PLA modernization when.. that just isnt the case anymore

The infamous "Gotland exercises" are heavily misinterpreted. Thread.

It's not a secret that the USN puts a pretty heavy emphasis on training with allies, it's been a lynchpin in our naval operations for the better part of a century at this point. It makes the USN better at doing

https://twitter.com/AslakVind/status/1616198453838708737

Navy things, alliances are amazing.
Now, to the Gotlands credit, it is/was at the time probably the most advanced European SSK, a buddy put it as:
"the Gotland is the darksouls of finding an SSK"
That said, these exercises don't, and aren't supposed to simulate 1 to 1 real world

Went to my first event today! @CSIS and @NavalInstitute set such a high bar for what I expect from something like this. Posting some of the main themes I gathered from the Commander of U.S. 7th Fleet. VADM Karl Thomas.
Not 100% accurate, missed a few things, please correct! Started off with being asked about general trends on Chinese and Russian behavior in 7th Fleets AOR.
-VADM Thomas commented that for the past few years it was very common for the PLAN to "operate with"(shadow) USN vessels in the SCS/within China's 9 Dash Line claim.