CSBA: Give the Marines a light aircraft carrier

Bryan Clark and Jesse Sloman from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) has published a study, “Advancing Beyond the Beach, Amphibious Operations in an Era of Precision Weapons,” on how the Pentagon should carry out future amphibious warfare operations.

USS Midway CVA-41
By U.S. Navy [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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China “lost” a Z-8 helicopter during exercise in Thailand

Update: The exercise was a simulation.

China’s Ministry of National Defense disclosed that a burning helicopter was pushed off the deck of Type 071 LPD Changbai Shan during the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM)-Plus Military Medicine (MM) / Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) Exercise in September.

Z8J Chinese Navy (16203585038)
By Rob Schleiffert from Holland (Z8J Chinese Navy) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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