Who Should Be Seen as the Real Threat to US Naval Dominance

Despite the US Navy’s “built-in advantages,” it may face capability-related risks and has yet to resolve an array of challenges posed by Russia, China and Iran, the American magazine National Interest reported.

The next few years may see the US Navy face a host of challenges from Russia, China and Iran, according to Dave Majumdar, defense editor of the American magazine National Interest.

He specifically pointed to the fact that these challenges, along with capability risks, come as the US Navy “has some built-in advantages that it has invested in over the past decade.”

Increasingly, rival powers, [such as Russia, China and Iran] are challenging American sea control — something that the US Navy has not encountered since the implosion of the once-mighty Soviet Navy in 1991,” Majumdar said, in a nod to the collapse of the Soviet Union 25 years ago.

He was echoed by Admiral Philip S. Davidson, commander of US Navy Fleet Forces Command, who earlier said that Moscow, Beijing and Tehran are trying their best to “deny us sea control.”

“It’s to let us know the last decade – that aberration — that we would not go unchallenged in the maritime domain. That is one of the areas in which we took risk in the last decade,” Davidson said.

According to him, other risks are related to electronic warfare, anti-submarine warfare, over-the-horizon targeting and strikes.

As far as the “built-in advantages” of the US Navy are concerned, they include the Naval Integrated Fire Control battle network, which Majumdar said helps the service aircraft, ships and other assets share information and targeting data.

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Who Should Be Seen as the Real Threat to US Naval Dominance