Showing posts with label Department of Crazy Ideas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Department of Crazy Ideas. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 09, 2020

Let's Have "Missile Barges" (and More) Now

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A few years ago I noted that someone had proposed missile barges to accompany fleet ships Let's Talk Arsenal Ships and Missile Barges ...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Finally! Crazy Ideas Aren't So Crazy After All, It Seems

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About 18 million years ago - no, it was more recent than that - around December 2008, I believe, I put a post on the USNI blog about a chea...
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Friday, December 20, 2019

Naval Infantry?

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 Infantry drill. U.S. Naval Training Camp, Charleston, South Carolina. December 4, 1918 One hobby horse of my Midrats co-host, CDR Salal...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

From the Department of Cheaper War Fighting: "A Ship that Still Isn't a Frigate" - byThink Defence

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A while ago, Think Defence took on the task of thinking through what sorts of uses could be made of ships built for trade by an armed force ...
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Thursday, November 17, 2016

Building a Temporary Larger Fleet While Waiting for New Construction Ships (A Reanimation of an Old Post)

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There is a great deal of brilliant discussion of how to build the 350 ship Navy called for by President-elect Trump see Jerry Hendrix's ...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

A Smarter Force in the Littorals? Two essays to read

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Well, well, well, someone else is beating the drum of being smarter in the way we spend our money on naval forces for the littorals - the ar...
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Thursday, February 25, 2016

Psst.Psst. Wanna Distribute Your Lethality on the Cheap?

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Ok. So over at CIMSEC they are have fun with Distributed Lethality Week , a topic which by some other names I have been plugging since Plut...
Thursday, February 04, 2016

A Blast from the Past - Department of The Expendable Ship Division : "How to Make the Navy Bigger, Sooner, Cheaper" Revisited

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Okay, back in November 2008, I had an odd idea. Why do we insist on building huge haze gray hulls when many Navy missions, such as presence,...
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