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A Quick Review of the Navy’s New Force Structure Assessment
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced the results of a much-awaited internal review of fleet size known as a “Force Structure Assessment. It appears that the Navy is setting its sails to the winds of renewed great power competition. The assessment states a requirement of 355 ships that Mabus declares must “continue to protect America and defend our strategic interests around the world, all while continuing the counter terrorism fight and appropriately competing with a growing China and resurgent Russia….”
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The U.S. Navy’s Great Magic Numbers Callenge
Enunciated in 2014, the navy’s officially stated goal [5] is 308 hulls. Three independent “fleet architecture [6]” studies are revisiting that number, however. The Navy Staff [7], the Washington-based Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments [8], and the Mitre Corporation [9] are surveying the strategic environment—the rise of China’s navy, an increasingly troublesome Russia, and on and on—and gauging how large a fleet it takes to handle such challenges.
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The 355-Ship Fleet Will Take Decades, Billions To Build: Analysts
Many analysts outside of government have also converged on about 350 ships. “Independent analyses have been calling for a fleet of roughly that size for some time, to include the 2010 QDR Independent Panel, as well as CSBA’s recent alternative fleet architecture study,” said Tom Mahnken, president of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Analyses, which Congress commissioned to do an (as yet unpublished) force structure assessment.
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Tillerson’s Experience, Worldview Come Under Scrutiny
“When you’re the CEO of a corporation, your job is to advance the interest of the corporation and the shareholder,” said Eric Edelman, a former ambassador who also held posts in the defense and state departments, “and that might not be your same view when you are representing the United States.”
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Ole Miss Alumni Review: Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus ‘At The Helm’
Clark appreciates that Mabus understands how important it is to improve the personal lives of servicemen and women.
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Osprey Flights in Japan Suspended After Crash
One reason the service is having so many problems keeping enough Hornets flying is that it decided to “skip a generation of fighter aircraft” by transitioning to the F-35 without buying any F/A-18 E-F Super Hornets as a stopgap measure, Jesse Sloman, an analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments think tank in Washington, said in June.