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Surface warfare leaders throughout the Navy last week mused about how to employ new classes of ships such as the Littoral Combat Ship and Expeditionary Sea Base, as the fleet transitions to a new type of operations against peer competitors. While much of the talk around implementing concepts like Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO) and Expeditionary […]
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ALEXANDRIA -- Good Evening, Drifters In journalism we have a thing called "the nut graf." I always try to have one in every story. It's the "so what" paragraph of your story. Here's one I wrote about a request for information about a sub-launched drone for aerial surveillance: "The Navy has been interested in sub-launched drones for some time and has been testing prototypes, but the RFI shows the service is getting serious about the idea as it adds longer-range torpedoes and anti-ship cruise missiles to the arsenal of its attack submarines." I mean, it's not Shakespeare, and it's not even a p...
Congress, the U.S. Marines, and Missiles: The Fight for Asian Security The U.S. Marine Corps sensibly asked for tomahawk cruise missiles for its strategy to fight the Chinese Navy in case of war. Why then did Congress say no? The U.S. Marine Corps may have a communications problem. Since assuming the post of commandant in mid-2019, General David Berger has been pushing operational concepts that make eminent sense for the Western Pacific. They bear such labels as Littoral Operations in a Contested Environment and Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations. Under these concepts, small bodies of ...
USNI News Top Stories 2020: Marine Corps Operations December 23, 2020 11:14 AM Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Austin McBain, a fire support specialist with 1st Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, I Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) Information Group, monitors a radio during exercise Summer Fury 20 in Yuma, Ariz., on July 14, 2020. US Marine Corps Photo This post is part of a series of stories looking back at the top naval news from 2020. 2020 was a turning-point year for the Marine Corps. After previewing changes to come in his Commandant’s Planning Guidance released last year, Commandant Gen. David...
December 17, 2020 Experimentation during exercises help evaluate the suitability for new technology into tactical operations. In this photo, an unmanned aerial vehicle launches from a tactical transport vehicle during the Ship-to-Shore Maneuver Exploration and Experimentation Advanced Naval Technology Exercise at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. The exercise brought industry, academia and Navy researchers together to demonstrate emerging technology and engineering innovations. (U.S. Navy photo by Joh The United States' Department of Navy (DoN) Small Business Innov...