Come As You Are

In a recent comment about a sparsely attended ASW exercise, ComNavOps happened to suggest that the event would have made a good o…

Sea Dragon 2019 ASW Exercise

Well, there appears to be a common theme in the Pacific theatre regarding ASW :   we aren’t very serious.   We just discussed the…

China Training Hard

ComNavOps follows Chinese military matters fairly closely.  Know your enemy, right?  My impression is that the Chinese are traini…

Multi-National ASW Exercise

Here’s the headline: “Maritime forces from Japan, UK, US practice submarine hunting in Philippine Sea” (1) Very nice.   I can env…

Fleet Problem Exercises

The US Navy famously conducted extensive, full scale fleet problem exercises in the pre-WWII years and those exercises served to …

Dynamic Mongoose ASW Exercise

Norway is hosting a NATO ASW exercise, called Dynamic Mongoose 2018, described as the year’s largest ASW exercise in the North …

Every Confidence

The Navy has commissioned yet another of their endless and pointless studies.  This one involved simulator tests of Junior Office…

Deployments or Missions?

Our current system of 6-12 month deployments is badly broken.  The driving force behind the perceived need for such lengthy deplo…