Proceedings Magazine - January 2013 Vol. 139/1/1,319

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Make Way for Small Craft
Issue: Proceedings Magazine - January 2013 Vol. 139/1/1,319
Tomorrow’s Navy mix should include scrappy ‘guerrilla-warfare’ vessels to prevail in the littorals.

In the coming decades, naval power is...

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    Crew rotation can work in the littoral combat ship, but the Navy will have to adopt proven maintenance practices and...

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Make Way for Small Craft
Tomorrow’s Navy mix should include scrappy ‘guerrilla-warfare’ vessels to prevail in the littorals....
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Sea Swap Redux
Crew rotation can work in the littoral combat ship, but the Navy will have to adopt proven maintenance practices and...
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A Sea Change in Standing Watch
A new approach to shipboard routine, as seen through two distinct lenses—science and naval operations—could...
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Surface warfare officers, submariners, and aviators should be educated as a team against undersea threats.
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Its first launch from a submarine failed spectacularly. But the program bounced back, and 24 years later this most-...
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Combat Fleets

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Admiral Bruce DeMars Oral History Is Available

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