Gary Roughead, Author at Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative

The Evolving Role of Military Exercises in Asia

By Gary Roughead and AMTI Leadership | March 4, 2015 | Categories: China, Military Exercises, South China Sea, United States

AMTI Director Mira Rapp Hooper interviews former Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead on the evolving role of military exercises in the Asia Pacific. Interview Transcript Mira Rapp Hooper: Hello everyone, I’m Mira Rapp Hooper, director of the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative and I’m very pleased to be here today with Admiral Gary Roughead. […]

Heavy Lifting in Washington on Asian Maritime Security

By Gary Roughead | January 7, 2015 | Categories: Strategy, United States

Asian maritime security issues will continue to be topical in Washington in 2015 and there will be a lot of D.C. chatter about events in the Indo-Pacific region. To make a difference and to produce favorable outcomes for the United States, however, some heavy lifting must take place in Washington. The most important maritime activity […]

The Coming Year in Maritime Asia

By Gary Roughead | December 23, 2014 | Categories: China, Indo-Pacific Region, Japan, Year in Review

Maritime Asia will be active and more pacific in the coming year. Maritime trade will continue apace with tens of millions of shipping containers and millions of barrels of petroleum products moving on Asian sea lanes. That feeding of the Asian and global economies will be taken for granted, but there are three categories to […]

Defining Maritime Asia

By Gary Roughead | November 11, 2014 | Categories: Indo-Pacific Region, Strategy

Most think of maritime Asia in the context of the Western Pacific littoral, the long swath of near shore waters that run from the Russian Pacific coast to Southeast Asia. Or, that maritime Asia is defined by the competing claims in the East and South China Seas and the rise of the Chinese Navy. Maritime […]