There has been no US naval ‘failure’ in the Strait of Hormuz
In this op-ed, Steven Wills of the Center for Maritime Security rebuts the idea that the US Navy shoulders the blame for instability around the critical waterway off the coast of Iran.
The Navy needs a high/low mix of manned and unmanned platforms
Steven Wills, in this op-ed, argues that the Navy will always need larger ships, and that an "all or nothing" approach relying on unmanned vessels simply won't work.
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Back to the Future: Resurrecting ‘Air/Sea Battle’ in the Pacific
An earlier Air/Sea battle concept was a good start but weakened through forced parochial jointness to include other services that were not ready to contribute, argue experts from the Center for Maritime Strategy.