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Friday, September 05, 2008

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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