New Maritime Strategy Released

[wm]

Just saw this press release about a new comprehensive maritime strategy agreed to by USN,USMC, and USCG. Here is a link to the document. I suspect it will be an interesting read.

[SteveMetz]

Just saw this press release about a new comprehensive maritime strategy agreed to by USN,USMC, and USCG. Here 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]

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]

Transcripts of 13 Dec 07 HASC testimony on Global Maritime Strategy Initiatives:

Admiral Gary Roughead, CNO

Admiral Thad W. Allen, Commandant USCG

General James T. Conway, Commandant USMC