Tom Shugart

Now that Balloongate has died down, a few thoughts on @CSIS’s recent Taiwan wargaming report. There was a fair bit of discussion of this a few weeks ago, but it’s taken me some tim...

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Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but some of the facts that Robert Kagan uses to underpin his opinions here are just...wrong. https://t.co/UJh6x1Zcx4

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Update: fresh @googleearth imagery of China's Huludao nuclear submarine shipyard (from 12/26/2022) provides further evidence that construction of a new, larger class of nuclear sub...

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Got some fresh @googleearth imagery of Jiangnan shipyard in Shanghai, and it looks to me like China has commenced construction of at least one additional Type 055 (Renhai-Class) cr...

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Don't want to sound alarmist, but IMO it's notable that at this time of US-China tension, 3 of China's largest/newest roll-on/roll-off civilian ferries appear to be off their norma...

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Some folks may recall this article I wrote last year in @WarOnTheRocks on how the PRC could use civilian shipping—and especially roll-on/roll-off ferries & vehicle carriers—to augm...

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