Scott Cheney-Peters, Author at Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative

Asia Pacific Maritime Security Strategy Roundtable

By Bryan McGrath, Peter Mattis, James Holmes, Scott Cheney-Peters and BJ Armstrong | August 24, 2015 | Categories: South China Sea, Southeast Asia, Spratly Islands

AMTI has asked some of its favorite maritime strategists—BJ Armstrong, Scott Cheney-Peters, James Holmes, Peter Mattis, and Bryan McGrath— to weigh in on the Pentagon’s new Asia-Pacific Maritime Security Strategy for Asia. What does the report contribute to existing US national security strategy, and does it meet the mandate set out in the NDAA? What […]

Patrolling International Skies: Understanding Joint Air Patrols

By Scott Cheney-Peters | July 29, 2015 | Categories: Japan, Military Exercises, South China Sea, United States

In examining recent suggestions for joint patrolling of the South China Sea, analysts have tended to focus on the surface vessels of various nations’ coast guards and navies. Yet the flight of a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon hosting a CNN film crew over disputed waters in the South China Sea in May highlighted the potential […]

India’s Maritime Acts in the East

By Scott Cheney-Peters | June 18, 2015 | Categories: India, Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia

Since the middle of May, four vessels of the Indian Navy’s Eastern Fleet, including some of its most advanced indigenous ships, have plied the waters of Southeast Asia and Australia, conducting exercises with partners and making port calls in Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Australia. Some, not least the Indian government, have held up […]

Joint Patrols and U.S. Coast Guard Capacity

By Scott Cheney-Peters | April 1, 2015 | Categories: Coast Guard, United States

On March 17th at the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition in Malaysia, Vice Admiral Robert Thomas, commander of the US 7th Fleet, proposed the creation of joint maritime patrols in the South China Sea by ASEAN member nations. The remarks engendered a mixed reaction, from the predictably negative Chinese Foreign Ministry response to the […]