Research for Operations Evaluation
This paper focuses on the Dardanelles Campaign (the navy portion), and compare it to a modern-day naval scenario—potential closure of the Strait of Hormuz (SoH). Although such comparisons are not new, arguments have been made that greater attention should be paid to the Dardanelles as a learning tool for littoral warfare.
On March 31, 2010, CNA China Studies hosted a half-day roundtable to discuss China’s relations with and activities in Pakistan. Thisreport summarizes key themes heard at this event.
This report summarizes the major themes and discussions from a conference held in March 2009, on China's participation in anti-piracy operations off the Gulf of Aden/Horn of Africa region.
CNA Office of the President Briefing "Carrier Operations: Looking Toward the Future -- Learning from the Past"
The Deputy Assistant Secretary of Navy (Safety) asked CNA to undertake three tasks in support of the Department of Navy’s safety program. The first task was to examine recent trends in lost time due to mishaps. The second was to look at Navy personal motor vehicle fatalities to identify contributing risk factors. The third was to investigate Navy and Marine Corp safety lesson’s learned programs. This annotated brief reports on findings drawn from interviews conducted at three lessons learned programs.
The U.S. Navy maintains a presence ashore in Italy, Greece, and Spain, which means the United States must work cooperatively with those countries on anti-terrorism and force protection. That cooperation is shaped by the host nations’ security concerns, national politics, and their developing security issues. The authors of a new paper from CNA on political-military trends in the three countries make several observations and recommendations.
The U.S. military responded to international situations, including humanitarian responses, roughly 170 times in the 1970s (that's not 170 situations, but 170 responses -- some in chains for one situation), increasing that total by approximately one-third in the 1980s (to roughly 230 cases) and then again by approximately one-fifth (up to approximately 280 cases) in the 1990s. Add that altogether and you have a grand three-decade total of just under 700 responses, with roughly 40 percent of the responses occurring since the end of the Cold War. This growth represents a significant increases in response totals, but when these cases are weighted in terms of cumulative duration of response by each service, one gets the sense of a far greater increase in U.S. military operations overseas in the 1990s. However, close examination shows that most of the increases in responses are for only four situations: Somalia, Haiti, the former Yugoslavia (Bosnia and Kosovo), and the Gulf, mostly to do with Iraq, and that actual combat covered only 6 percent of the total days of the post-Cold War period 1989-2001.
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