An Approach to Fleet Architectures

Abstract

This paper responds to Art Cebrowskis request for my views for a response to theCongressional tasking on fleet architectures for the U.S. Navy. This responseattempts to put the evolution of hulls1 into the transformation context. Hulls do notconstitute the entire system that is the U.S. Navy; fleet architectures go far beyondhulls, especially in their war-fighting systems. But at its heart the Navy floats onwater. Otherwise, it would not be a navy, but something else, like an air force or aspace force. Those hulls do carry fighting capabilities wherever the nation would likethem to go, or include auxiliary hulls that support the hulls with fighting capabilities.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2004
Accession Number
AD1014543

Entities

People

  • Henry H. Gaffney

Organizations

  • Center for Naval Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Boats
  • Commerce
  • Defense Systems
  • Deployment
  • Globalization
  • Homeland Defense
  • Investments
  • Iraqi-War
  • Marine Transportation
  • Naval Operations
  • Navy
  • Second World War
  • Shipbuilding
  • Terrorists
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.