The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA), a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, has released its new Fleet Architecture Study, which includes recommendations for what kinds of ships should make up the future U.S. Navy fleet, and how it should be organized. CSBA’s report is one of three separate Fleet Architecture studies ordered by Senator John McCain, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Together with reports from an internal Navy group and the MITRE corporation, the plan is intended to inform future shipbuilding numbers and plans, capabilities, and fleet organization. Here I examine the new operating concepts proposed in the study, as well as its recommendations on fleet organization (where ships are stationed and how they are grouped together). In Part II, I will examine the CSBA’s recommended fleet composition.
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