Podcast: Why Should We Care About the Indo-Pacific? Podcast (Apple Podcasts)
Brent Sadler is with the Heritage Foundation:
Its initial funding was provided by Joseph Coors, of the Coors beer empire, and Richard Mellon Scaife, heir of the Mellon industrial and banking fortune. Its founders include Paul Weyrich and Mickey Edwards. The Foundation maintains strong ties with the London Institute of Economic Affairs and the Mont Pelerin Society.
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Richard Mellon Scaife (Mellon family), Committee on the Present Danger/Members, Scaife Foundations (WikiSpooks), Atlas Network, Kock Network, State Policy Network, ALEC, Council for National Policy
The Maritime Counterinsurgency Project aims to shine a bright light on the People’s Republic of China’s illegal activities to harass, intimidate, and bully other states in the South China Sea region into accepting China’s excessive claims to the entire South China Sea. The project will also develop strategic, operational, tactical, and force structure recommendations on how to thwart China’s illegal efforts.
[2023] TRADOC and the Release of FM 3-24, Counterinsurgency
[2014] FM 3-24: INSURGENCIES AND COUNTERING INSURGENCIES (MCWP 3-33.5)
Ruettershof, T. Counterinsurgency as Ideology
[2023] An Effective Maritime Campaign Against China Requires a New Fleet-Centered Approach
[2023] CRS: U.S.-China Strategic Competition in South and East China Seas: Background and Issues for Congress
[2022] Time to Slow Cook China’s South China Sea Frog?
[2022] The Maritime Counterinsurgency Project Begins
[2022] Win the Contest for a Maritime Rules-Based Order By Brent D. Sadler (archived)
[2021] Littoral Combat Ships for Maritime COIN
[2019] The South China Sea Needs a ‘COIN’ Toss
Authored by Hunter Stires, who was hired by the US Secretary of the Navy [Carlos Del Toro] as a ‘maritime strategist’ in January 2024.
Ray Powell and Jim Carouso (CSIS):
Powell and Carouso worked together at the U.S. Embassy in Canberra, Australia. They’re trying to “shape” the Indo-Pacific for US corporate interests and to provoke a war with China.
Jim Carouso is currently with the Center for Strategic & International Studies. CSIS is funded by various governments, including the United States, and corporations. Carouso is also with BowerGroupAsia in Singapore. He formerly worked in the State Department and was a chargé d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Canberra and the U.S. Mission to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Ray Powell was formerly a Defense Attaché in Canberra, Australia. The Defense Attaché System is part of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
SeaLight was formerly Project Myoushu:
SeaLight at Standford’s GKC (formerly Project Myoushu)
The Office of Naval Research is an organization within the US Department of Navy. Ray Powell’s SeaLight/Project Myoushu started at Stanford’s GKC.
[2021] Unraveling ‘Knotty’ Problems: ONR Helps Launch New Academic Center for National Security Innovation
[2024] Bringing Vietnamese Counterinsurgency To The Philippines And South China Sea (Part I) – Analysis
But tactical doctrines are one thing, actionable military campaigns another. What ensued was the controversial Project Myoushu, a derivative of the U.S Naval Institute’s Maritime Counterinsurgency (COIN) Project. Tailored to counter China in the SCS, Myoushu is one of the core projects of SeaLight, an initiative by Stanford University’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation (GKC).
[2024] Trilateral Militarization: From Missiles To Nukes (Part II) – OpEd
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 