U.S. Navy Already Shifting Away from Shallow Waters?

For years now we've been hearing about how the U.S. Navy needs to operate closer to land, in the dangerous shallow-water littorals inhabited by pirates, insurgents and small "irregular" navies like Iran's.

Indeed, the Navy's two most recent classes of warships, the DDG-1000 stealth destroyer and the lightweight Littoral Combat Ship, both are optimized for the inshore fight.

But DANGER ROOM favorite Bob Work, a naval analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, says the Navy is shifting its focus again, before the inshore fighters have even joined the fleet.

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