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Warfighting, Peacemaking, and Hybrid Warfare at Sea - Future of Navy?
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 2009-01-12 |
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