ARTICLES FROM 2011 Archives - National Maritime Foundation

CHINA’S ‘HEAVENLY PALACE’: GREAT STRIDES IN MANNED SPACE MISSION

China’s unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou-8 was successfully sent into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre on board a Long March-2F rocket on November 1, 2011. Shenzhou, which means ‘magic vessel,’ finally achieved a historic…

‘MILITARY OPERATIONS OTHER THAN WAR’ (MOOTW): NON-TRADITIONAL ROLE OF THE PLA NAVY TOWARDS ‘PEACEFUL DEVELOPMENT’ OF CHINA

Many an international eyebrow has been raised at the rapid pace of the Chinese defence modernisation over the last decade. The US has been an active proponent in questioning the Chinese ‘Peaceful Rise’, a term used for the very first time…

CHINESE DILEMMA OVER RESURGENCE OF SOUTH CHINA SEA DISPUTE

The South China Sea and the issues of sovereign rights therein between China and Vietnam have again surfaced since the May 26, 2011 incident when the Chinese maritime patrol ships ventured into the Vietnamese Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and…

THE LIBYAN CRISIS – NON-TRADITIONAL CHALLENGES FOR THE MILITARY FORCES

The ‘Jasmine Revolution’ that started in Tunisia on 17 December 2010 and resulted in the Regime change by peoples’ power, has also spread into the other regions in North Africa. Egypt followed suit thereafter and President Hosni Mubarak…

CHINA’S ‘HEAVENLY PALACE’: GREAT STRIDES IN MANNED SPACE MISSION

‘MILITARY OPERATIONS OTHER THAN WAR’ (MOOTW): NON-TRADITIONAL ROLE OF THE PLA NAVY TOWARDS ‘PEACEFUL DEVELOPMENT’ OF CHINA

CHINESE DILEMMA OVER RESURGENCE OF SOUTH CHINA SEA DISPUTE

THE LIBYAN CRISIS – NON-TRADITIONAL CHALLENGES FOR THE MILITARY FORCES

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