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Naval round-up as peace continues to break out all over

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Obama’s ‘marine protected area’ expansion: On a collision course with...

  Standing athwart China’s naval gateway to the Pacific, yelling “Save the planet!” (Bathymetric map of the Pacific Ocean. Author annotation) New post up at Liberty Unyielding.  Enjoy!

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China deploys submarine to Gulf of Aden

Chinese Song-class (Type 039) submarine. (Image via ChineseDefence.com) New post up at Liberty Unyielding.  Enjoy!

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Now Egypt joins the air fight against Islamic State – in Libya

Egypt goes kinetic against ISIS in Derna, Libya on 16 Feb. (Image via Twitter) New post up at Liberty Unyielding.  Enjoy!

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Actually, Iran does pose a threat to U.S. aircraft carriers

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For Russia and NATO, the year of maneuvering dangerously continues

Tu-22M3 Backfire, on the loose again. (Image: Alex Beltyukov via the Aviationist) New post up at Liberty Unyielding.  Enjoy!

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All stop: Pentagon denies report that Iranian convoy has “turned around”

USS Theodore Roosevelt (foreground) and USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) turn over in the Persian Gulf, 13 April 2015. (Image: USN, MC2 Scott Fenaroli) New post up at Liberty Unyielding.  Enjoy!

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The Maersk Tigris game change: Iran’s big little maneuver in the Strait of...

Superbad. An Iranian speedboat and Kayvan patrol boat, the new law in the SOH. (Image: Fars via Uskowi on Iran) The game of international power dynamics has just shifted in a major way.  It will take a...

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Obama demonstrates geostrategic incomprehension in webcast with Jewish groups

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on the march. (Image: AFP via Der Spiegel) There was a lot to reject in the comments made by President Obama on Friday to the leaders of the Jewish Federations...

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Lose the ‘quagmire’ theme; Russia can’t fall into one in Syria

Putin confers with his senior military officials. (Image: Kremlin/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin via Newsweek) We’re going to keep this one (relatively) short.  I’ve written about Russia’s goals in...

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