Accordingly, this report offers a way to close the strategy-resources gap, and identifies the requisite maritime strategy and forces to carry it out. After presenting the current Navy acquisition plans, a range of alternative fleet designs is briefly reviewed to illustrate the range of options.
The report also includes a synthesis of these competing designs, and an argument for why this particular fleet better matches the sustainable grand strategy offered in the first section. It concludes with a few general recommendations. Official reports See all.
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Navy operates at the end of a very long logistical tether.
Navy panned by Secretary Stimson, the modern U. Navy understands that it must act as part of a larger joint and combined team to overcome the Chinese military in its own back yard, if conflict becomes unavoidable.
These facts will challenge the U. Navy as it continues to downsize through retirement of older ships and a much smaller shipbuilding program over the next twenty years. Discussions now underway about the size and composition of the future force will have a profound effect on the capabilities and influence of the U.
Navy in the future. In order to achieve the national security objectives of America and its allies, the Navy will not only have to work with other U. The unique capabilities of the Navy-Marine Corps team will remain extremely important, as world populations continue to grow, particularly in unstable and developing countries.
Since most of these populations continue to live within miles of the coast in many countries, power projection and expeditionary capabilities provided by modern and capable naval forces will remain an important component of American power and diplomacy. With the decline of the U.
Navy from a force of nearly ships in the late s to less than ships today, cooperation with allies and regional powers will become a necessity as American warships begin to shift their deployments and forward presence from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean in response to the increasing importance of that region to both regional and global stability. Stability, not hegemony will become the new watchwords of naval power.