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wm
10-18-2007, 10:46 AM
Just saw this (http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=11416) press release about a new comprehensive maritime strategy agreed to by USN,USMC, and USCG. Here (http://www.navy.mil/maritime/)is a link to the document. I suspect it will be an interesting read.

SteveMetz
10-18-2007, 11:46 AM
Just saw this (http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=11416) press release about a new comprehensive maritime strategy agreed to by USN,USMC, and USCG. Here (http://www.navy.mil/maritime/)is a link to the document. I suspect it will be an interesting read.

I look forward to reading this. I participated in a few of the early prep sessions for it at Newport (basically as an excuse to get a lobsta) and was struck by the degree to which the Navy was floundering without a raison d'etre. Perhaps the thinking evolved a great deal but what I was seeing at that point was a near disregard for what seems to me to be its greatest strategic relevance--power projection as part of a team with the Marines--and instead a near obsession with sinking Chinese ships. The Marines in our group were aghast as just what a limited role their service had in the initial conceptualization of the new maritime strategy.

Steve Blair
10-18-2007, 01:04 PM
Interesting document....kinda fuzzy, like most of these things are. I'll be curious to see what sort of stuff they come out with to support this...especially since it's calling for a much more forward, deployed presence for all naval components.

Jedburgh
12-14-2007, 02:29 PM
Transcripts of 13 Dec 07 HASC testimony on Global Maritime Strategy Initiatives:

Admiral Gary Roughead, CNO (http://armedservices.house.gov/pdfs/FC121307/Roughead_Testimony121307.pdf)

Admiral Thad W. Allen, Commandant USCG (http://armedservices.house.gov/pdfs/FC121307/Allen_Testimony121307.pdf)

General James T. Conway, Commandant USMC (http://armedservices.house.gov/pdfs/FC121307/Conway_Testimony121307.pdf)