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| Warfighting, Peacemaking, and Hybrid Warfare at Sea - Future of Navy? |
| 2009-01-12 |
| The Small Wars Journal is highlighting an Inside the Navy article (subscription only) by Zachary M. Peterson called Marines Make Case for Return to "From the Sea" Ops, Hybrid Warfare. It is an interesting article, and outlines the USMC vision for how the Corps is looking to return to action after Iraq. In my opinion, this debate is so much bigger than the USMC, and I get the impression that with a targeted information dump like what this article appears to be from Col. Steven Zotti, the Navy is being sent a broadside over the bow. Make no mistake, this will be the discussion of 2009 in the Navy, and it is going to be an interesting discussion. This debate is centric to how maritime forces will operate for the next decade, and how maritime forces will be shaped for much longer. The budget crunch coming to the Navy is too big for the Navy to simply build ships to sail the ocean blue, ships will either have a specific purpose that Congress can justify with spending, or the ship won't get built. Easy as that. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #3 GUAM PDN > seems the curr DON = DEPT OF THE NAVY may be renamed to a "DEPT OF THE NAVY AND MARINE CORPS", among other, iff certain polilicos succeed. * "HYBRID WARFARE" > read, ARSENAL/FIRE SHIPS + "MOTHER/BASE SHIPS", EARTHWAR 21 + SPACEWAR21 + EARTHSPACE21, etc. HMMMMMM, HMMMMMMMMMM, my nose is telling me theres a DESIRED? "REVOLT OF THE ADMIRALS/GENERALS" in there somewhere, as per another ANTi-OWG = ANTI-OWG, PRO-SOCIALIST = ANTI-SOCIALIST, etc. pressure for the BAM-MAN + his new POTUS ADMIN??? * OTOH, Matthew Broderick's "WAR GAMES" 1980's flick = "SPACE GAMES/BATTLESPACE". WOPR = SPACE OPERATIONS PLANNED RESPONSE, ALLY SHEEDY = ROBO-BABE/ MR. GIRLFRIEND??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-01-12 18:51 |
| #2 You mean something like this. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-01-12 11:56 |
| #1 I have been thinking for some time after 9/11 that we should rethink the whole idea of separate branches of service and the so-called unified military doctrine. I don't know the exact form of organization but it would be something like a matrix and vertically integrated for the type of action, region and enemy profile. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back 2009-01-12 10:56 |