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Oct 30, 2024 | 
eurasiareview.com | Bruce A. Elleman
China has a pivotal decision to make soon. Will it continue to back the continentalist Putin? Or will Xi Jinping
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
eurasiareview.com | Bruce A. Elleman
China has a pivotal decision to make soon. Will it continue to back the continentalist Putin? Or will Xi Jinping take advantage of Russia’s sudden weakness to reclaim China’s “lost territories,” thereby deescalating rising maritime tensions with the Anglo-American-led sea powers? ***It is often overlooked that during the Cold War China was the biggest prize for the West, tying up as it did a quarter of the Soviet armed forces.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Bruce A. Elleman
Brandon Weichert’s essay “The Era of Large US Navy Warships is all Done Now” applies equally well—if not better—to China. In fact, it is China that has arguably invested in a “useless” Blue Water Navy composed soon—by 2025—of 400 large surface warships. China is potentially the biggest loser. Not the United States. Is the era of “Big Warships” over? Scholars have made this claim before, like Tom Barnett did twenty years ago in The Pentagon’s New Map, yet reality continues to defy speculation.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
scmp.com | Bruce A. Elleman
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s preoccupation with his country’s invasion of Ukraine is allowing China to dabble in areas once solidly in Moscow’s sphere of interest. Recent diplomatic breakthroughs with regard to Ukraine, Gaza and Afghanistan show Beijing trying to fill this widening political vacuum, even as Putin focuses all his dwindling assets on defeating Ukraine. Such temptations could precipitate Chinese overextension.
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May 31, 2024 | 
usni.org | Bruce A. Elleman
If you are looking for downtime after a challenging tour or a break from the rigors and responsibilities of the fleet, I have a suggestion for you: Don’t come to the Naval War College. Since October, naval forces in the Red Sea have been engaged in combat to protect international shipping, the longest sustained campaign of naval warfare since World War II. They have downed dozens of missiles and drones, sunk surface craft, and protected thousands of mariners.
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May 23, 2024 | 
usni.org | Bruce A. Elleman
Robert C. Rubel Captain Robert C. Rubel, U.S. Navy (Retired), was a Navy pilot who flew light-attack and strike-fighter aircraft. He retired after 30 years of active duty and then served for 13 years on the faculty of the Naval War College, including eight years as dean of the Center for Naval Warfare Studies. He has published more than 30 articles and several book chapters on naval and military subjects.
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May 21, 2024 | 
usni.org | Bruce A. Elleman
Robert C. Rubel Captain Robert C. Rubel, U.S. Navy (Retired), was a Navy pilot who flew light-attack and strike-fighter aircraft. He retired after 30 years of active duty and then served for 13 years on the faculty of the Naval War College, including eight years as dean of the Center for Naval Warfare Studies. He has published more than 30 articles and several book chapters on naval and military subjects.
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May 21, 2024 | 
usni.org | Bruce A. Elleman
There is no better way to consider the state of U.S. professional military education (PME) than to quote then–Secretary of Defense, retired Marine Corps General James Mattis, in the Summary of the 2018 National Defense Strategy of the United States:“PME has stagnated, focused more on the accomplishment of mandatory credit at the expense of lethality and ingenuity.” The assessment is damning, not in the particulars of the curricula offered by the schools, but in the institutional failure of...
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
usni.org | Andrea K. Orlowski |Bruce A. Elleman |Brian Sattler |Sam J. Tangredi
P CEO Notes CEO Notes The Honorable Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy, will join us on Wednesday, 13 March, for the next event in our Maritime Security Dialogue series. P Commentary Five Recommended Reforms for The U.S. Naval War College The U.S. Naval War College is the only professional military education institution focused on the prerequisites and strategic possibilities for maritime power.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
essentialsurrey.co.uk | Bruce A. Elleman
My very first night of a year-long research trip to the UK National Archives in Kew was spent next to a Richmond alley. By chance, my hotel was adjacent to Vineyard Passage. All night long, one could hear local rowdies making their way home along this time-honored short cut.
The next day I checked out the Vineyard Burial Ground, consecrated in 1790, and now maintained by the Environment Trust of Richmond upon Thames. It was a shock to discover ‘real bodies’ buried so close to my hotel.
