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• Navies Looking for a Fight

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  I am never one who likes to say “never”. An oxymoron, I know, but the point is I wouldn’t dare say we will “never” fight China or another conventional peer enemy, but neither should we try to rush things along, as Strategypage reveals to us: The U.S. Navy is looking for [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 2:15pm EST
  by Mike Burleson

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• Thinking Beyond the Navy Pt 1

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     Brian J Dunn at the Dignified Rant has an excellent post, Forward … to a Thousand-Ship American Navy, which he claimed “free content”. I am going to take him up on this because it is that good. Without saying he is endorsing anything I write here, I will be using [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 6:00am EST
  by Mike Burleson

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• On Auxiliary Cruisers and Such…

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  I’ll be offline most all day. Meanwhile, please check out an excellent post at the Dignified Rant titled “Forward … to a Thousand-Ship American Navy“, by Brian J Dunn. I promise we will discuss this further next week, with a little twist on the idea of “warships off the shelf”. Brian-I [...]

  Posted: December 20, 2009, 8:11am EST
  by Mike Burleson

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• Sea Links

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  Special-Royal Navy Faces Cuts Bob Ainsworth warns of major defence cuts this week to pay for Afghanistan. British Defense Programs: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. British Navy’s fleet is cut in defence shake-up but carriers stay. Royal Navy loses 2 ships in planned cuts. Opinion: ‘Sea blindness’ pitifully weakens the Royal Navy. First Sea [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 6:00am EST
  by Mike Burleson

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• Carrier Alternative Weekly

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  Why the Royal Navy Shrinks Your first guess to this question might be “lack of funds”. However, I beg to disagree, and instead point to headlines like the following: Navy’s fleet is cut in defence shake-up but carriers stay These cuts mentioned are only two small warships. No big deal right? Yet, the [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 6:00am EST
  by Mike Burleson

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• The Danish Navy’s Ivar Huitfeldt class frigate

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  A very interesting high end version of their much-liked Absalon class. I like the European frigates designs (as a destroyer alternative, not an LCS alternative) because they aren’t overloaded with add-ons. While being less costly they are still highly capable. Hat tip to Lee Wahler! Posted in New Battleships [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 6:00pm EST
  by Mike Burleson

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• The Case for More Ships

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  The Navy might think it is impressing someone with its vague and hardly serious notion of a 313 ship navy, but we think it can do much better. What is needed for today’s fleet is more like 400-500 ships, and 600-700 shouldn’t be unattainable if the need is there. This [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 2:01pm EST
  by Mike Burleson

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• LCS Alternative Weekly

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  The PC Answer to Piracy     The remaining Cyclone class patrol craft of the US Navy have been quietly performing the duties expected of the newer Littoral Combat Ship, without the frills, the advanced hull form, super-high tech engines, cost overruns, mechanical difficulties, funding difficulties, ect…Here is a 2006 article from Navy.mil [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 6:00am EST
  by Mike Burleson

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• McMaster? The cringing Barrett? DeMint? Henry Brown?

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  So the Gitmo detainees will go to a prison in Illinois.
  
  Who'll be the first SC Republican politico to take credit for keeping them out of the Charleston Navy Brig?' [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 12:46am EST
  

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• Might the Navy Get Conventional Submarines?

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    This is a modest proposal on what some would consider unlikely, the return to building conventionally powered, nonnuclear submarines in the US Navy. First, here is the setup via Raymond Pritchett: If the Navy wants to reduce the number of nuclear submarines, maybe Congress should impose a new law that requires [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 12:05pm EST
  by Mike Burleson

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• Sea Links

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  Special: Littoral Combat Ship U.S. Navy Preps For First LCS Deployment. U.S. Navy Revamps LCS Procurement. LCS competition: Lawmakers say cost looms too large. Navy Inspectors recommends accepting LCS 2. General Dynamics ship succeeds in trials–US Navy. “not 55, but more like 155” Littoral Ships ***** US Navy The Sino-American naval conflict of 2015. Scrap the Maritime Strategy? Is ASW eating [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 6:00am EST
  by Mike Burleson

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• Sea Fighter Mystery Looms

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  What is the impending fate of the Navy’s experimental and recently upgraded Sea Fighter FSF-1? Last we heard she was headed for the Caribbean and Southern Command, but rumors abound that she may have been seriously damaged in port during a recent storm, as we mentioned last week. The following obscure [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 9:21pm EST
  by Mike Burleson

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• Will the Knife Save the Navy?

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  The cuts in the upcoming QDR mentioned earlier concerned the 2 supercarriers, the Marine Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle, and a great chunk of the Joint Strike Fighter buy. According to the Cato at Liberty blog, there’s even more trimming planned: The Navy’s draft ship-building plan apparently warns of massive cuts in the [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 2:00pm EST
  by Mike Burleson

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• Carrier Alternative Weekly

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  Scratch 2 Flattops in QDR Whew! Big news. Taking a deep breath. Here we go, from DoD Buzz: Word on Capitol Hill is that the Quadrennial Defense Review should result in the demise of two Navy car­rier groups and the Marines’ Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle. On top of that, the Joint Strike Fighter [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 6:00am EST
  by Mike Burleson

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• LCS Alternative Weekly

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  Exporting Russia’s Littoral Ships Here is a thought. After recent news that Russia’s Navy is on the downslide, headed for what some have called a fleet with only corvettes and French designed amphibious ships, perhaps there is room for concern. What if Moscow does start constructing numerous new corvettes, which unlike [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 6:15am EST
  by Mike Burleson

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• Building a Bigger, Better Navy Pt 2

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  It was numbers and mobility that determined flotilla types rather than armament or capacity for sea-endurance. Their primary purpose was to control communications in home and colonial waters against weakly armed privateers. The type which these duties determined fitted them adequately for the secondary purpose of inshore and dispatch work [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 6:00am EST
  by Mike Burleson

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• Building a Bigger, Better Navy Pt 1

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  The Quarter-Sized Navy In wartime, you need lots of ships. In peacetime, a global navy requires many hulls in the water. The US Navy will insist even though it is less than half the fleet of the 1980s, when we had a fewer enemies, that they are justified in contributing to [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 6:00am EST
  by Mike Burleson

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• Bowl’d over

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  Here we go. With the conference championship games over, and only Army-Navy left on Dec. 12, bowl bids are going out hot and heavy. There are some things that were expected, some surprises and — oh man — Clemson totally got jobbed.

  BCS National Championship [...]

  Posted: December 06, 2009, 8:41pm EST
  by Wes Wolfe

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• Maritime Strategy Architect Changes Tune

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  OK. Maybe we are doing some little good at New Wars, though we don’t take any credit for this new story. We would hope that as events prove the Navy’s future plans are seriously skewed away from the times we are living with, and the varied threats different from a [...]

  Posted: December 05, 2009, 6:00am EST
  by Mike Burleson

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• Sea Links

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  Pearl Harbor Links Remembering Pearl Harbor. (The Dolphin) Pearl Harbor: a day that will live in infamy. (Springville Journal) Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. (Mille Lacs County Times) Historic Pearl Harbor Pictures. (About.com) There Probably Will Be an Electronic Pearl Harbor. (Computer World) ***** US Navy Navy Swapping 1 Of 3 Guam-based Submarines. Second LCS-2 Class–the price revealed! More. Even [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 12:00pm EST
  by Mike Burleson

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• "A Date Which Will Live in Infamy"

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  Sixty-eight years ago this week, the First Air Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked American military installations and our fleet at Pearl Harbor. The attack killed more than 2,400 Americans and brought America’s entry into World War II.

  The next day President [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 9:00am EST
  by Daniel J. Cassidy

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• Build Your Own Navy-Flattop Edition

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  The Navy and yours truly part company in terms of fleet composition. They continue to build ships that are individually capable, which they see as reducing overall operating costs for the entire fleet without reduction effectiveness. Yet they get less effective each year, with ships and crews overworked and the [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 6:00am EST
  by Mike Burleson

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• Only thing for it is touring the Charleston Navy Brig and making "tut, tut" sounds.

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  Cotton Boll Conspiracy- whose return from technical difficulties is to be celebrated most highly- has a telling fisking of the most ludicrous SC political story of the last few minutes in SC: that an Iraq war vet who's running for lieutenant governor- as a Republican- got hacked by Islamic [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 11:06pm EST
  

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• -thanks to Henry we don't even have a license plate to pray to in a crisis

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  Boy Fogle, shilling for his paymasters' client, gubernatorial candidate Henry McMaster, extols the attorney general for keeping South Carolinians safe by touring the Charleston Navy Brig where no terrorists are being held to announce that none should be kept there. It's a slap at Congressman J. Gresham Barrett (R-Running' [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:27pm EST
  

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• Royal Marines Present During Hostage Grab

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  I always get into trouble posting on Marines, but I have to say this is what happens when our elite sea soldiers aren’t allowed what they do best–to combat our foes From the Sea. Here is the Daily Mail on this sad tale: The disturbing truth behind the Royal Navy’s failure [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:00pm EST
  by Mike Burleson

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• Back to the Battleship Pt 1

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  Some familiar terms used to describe the DDG-1000 Zumwalt class destroyers was prevalent in the following article by Andrew Rhys Thompson at the ISN Security Watch: The US Navy is expected to launch the next-generation DDG-1000 Zumwalt class stealth destroyers in 2013 as it seeks to use cutting-edge technology to reintroduce [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 6:00am EST
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• Polling: Back, for another week, the undefeated six

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  It’s doubtful that anytime in the modern era of college football there have been six undefeated teams, ranked Nos. 1-6, going into the final week season (not counting Army-Navy on Dec. 12). As such, not much changed, even after a run of upsets. There remains the [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 4:35am EST
  by Wes Wolfe

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• Russia’s All Corvette Navy

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  Eric L Palmer points to this link concerning the Russian Navy’s dramatically declining fortunes: “If the current situation [with shipbuilding] remains unchanged, we will face a grand-scale removal of ocean-going warships from service with the Russian Navy by 2015 and, as a result, a sharp decrease in its combat capabilities,” Adm. [...]

  Posted: November 28, 2009, 1:17pm EST
  by Mike Burleson

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• Carrier Alternative Weekly

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   “I do not have a specific need for an aircraft carrier.” This amazing statement from a US Admiral is via David Axe, as spoken by the commander of the 4th Fleet Rear Admiral Joseph Kernan, also a former Navy SEAL: What does 4th Fleet not need? “I do not have a specific [...]

  Posted: November 26, 2009, 12:00pm EST
  by Mike Burleson

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• LCS Alternative Weekly

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  Considering our sailors A lot of the arguments I get against the deployment of corvettes as a force multiplier for the US Navy concerns the small warships’ perceived lack of endurance or seakeeping abilities. This is amazing to me since such small craft of 1000+ tons were considered high end units in [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:06am EST
  by Mike Burleson

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