Breaking the Anti-Ship Missile Kill Chain
By Dick Mosier With the fielding of increasingly capable anti-ship missiles, the centerpiece of the next conflict with a near-peer maritime power will be warfare to deny the adversary the intelligence,...
View ArticleThe Navy’s New Fleet Problem Experiments and Stunning Revelations of Military...
By Dmitry Filipoff Losing the Warrior Ethos “…despite the best efforts of our training teams, our deploying forces were not preparing for the high-end maritime fight and, ultimately, the U.S. Navy’s...
View ArticleThe Bad Day Scenario, Part 2: Dynamic Force Employment and Distributed...
Read Part One here. By Jimmy Drennan The first article of this series introduced the “Bad Day Scenario,” reminiscent of a similar scenario the Navy considered in 2003. The Navy went on to test its...
View ArticleCall for Articles: The Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO) Concept
By Dmitry Filipoff Articles Due: February 25, 2019 Week Dates: March 4-8, 2019 Article Length: 1000-3500 words Submit to: Nextwar@cimsec.org The U.S. Navy is pursuing a new Distributed Maritime...
View ArticleDistributed Maritime Operations Week Concludes on CIMSEC
By Dmitry Filipoff Last week CIMSEC published articles on the U.S. Navy’s nascent Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO) concept. Authors looked at institutional challenges, capability gaps, and other...
View ArticleDistributed Basing: The Key to Distributed Lethality’s Success in the Western...
The following is a submission from guest author Eric Gomez for CIMSEC’s Distributed Lethality week. The distributed lethality concept that was unveiled in Proceedings at the start of this year...
View ArticleWeaponized Hovercraft for Distributed Lethality
This post was submitted by guest author John Salak for CIMSEC’s Distributed Lethality week. Distributed Lethality is a concept that offers the Navy an opportunity to transform our force structure to...
View ArticleAirborne Over The Horizon Targeting Options to Enable Distributed Lethality
This article was submitted by guest author Michael Glynn for CIMSEC’s Distributed Lethality week. The Navy’s surface warfare community is committed to remedying its lack of anti-surface warfare (ASuW)...
View ArticleLCS: The Distributed Lethality Flotilla Combatant
The littoral combat ship is an excellent choice to support the U.S. Navy's emerging concept of distributive lethality.
View ArticleMissing an Opportunity for Innovation: A Conceptual Critique of Distributed...
100 years ago today, in bunkers and boardrooms across Europe, the military and political leaders of a Europe that was being drowned in its own blood were attempting to solve the stagnant enigma of the...
View ArticleDistributed Lethality’s C2 Sea Change
The concept of Distributed Lethality implies a simple command and control (C2) challenge: the surface fleet will field more ships with offensive weaponry, so more Commanding Officers will hold the...
View ArticleThe Role of Swarm Intelligence for Distributed Lethality C2
This article was submitted by guest author Marjorie Greene for CIMSEC’s Distributed Lethality week. Ms. Greene is a Research Analyst with CNA. Views expressed are her own. What will distributed...
View ArticleNaval Surface and Mine Warfighting Development Center: The Human Element of...
To close out Distributed Lethality Week, VADM Rowden, Commander, Surface Forces, was kind enough to add his own piece to the milieu. Once again, I am really pleased to see CIMSEC out front and leading...
View ArticleDistributed Lethality and Concepts of Future War
By Dmitry Filipoff Introduction “One must be ready to change his line sharply and suddenly, with no concern for the prejudices and memories of what was yesterday. To rest upon formula is a slumber...
View ArticleCIMSEC Releases First 2016 Compendium
CIMSEC Compendiums are back! CIMSEC is reintroducing PDF Compendiums to bolster its digital library. These compilations bring together the best articles CIMSEC has to offer on specific issue areas,...
View ArticlePublication Release: Distributed Lethality 2015 Week Compendium
Released January 2016 Distributed Lethality is a concept announced by U.S. Navy leadership in January 2015 to explore the warfighting benefits of dispersing surface combatants. CIMSEC launched a topic...
View ArticleDistributed Lethality Task Force Launches CIMSEC Topic Week
Week Dates: Feb. 22-28 2016 Articles Due: Feb. 21 2016 Article Length: 800-1800 Words (with flexibility) Submit to: Nextwar@cimsec.org By Ryan Kelly Since we last discussed the Surface Navy’s...
View ArticleDistributed Lethality Week Kicks Off on CIMSEC
By Dmitry Filipoff This week CIMSEC is hosting articles exploring the US Navy’s Distributed Lethality concept. The US Navy is investigating distributed lethality as a potentially game changing approach...
View ArticleA Tactical Doctrine for Distributed Lethality
Distributed Lethality Topic Week By Jeffrey E. Kline, CAPT, USN (ret) “…strike effectively first…” –Wayne P. Hughes, Captain, United States Navy (ret)[i] Introduction In January of 2015 the U.S. Navy’s...
View ArticleDistributed Lethality: Old Opportunities for New Operations
Distributed Lethality Topic Week By Matthew Hipple The essence of naval warfare has always been opportunism – from the vague area of gravity generated by an in-port “fleet in being,” to the...
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