Navy Needs To Think Small When Planning Irregular Surface Warfare Strategies
By: John Grady
July 3, 2019 10:47 AM
Great power competition dramatically expands the challenges of confronting irregular naval warfare such as defending against maritime pirates or preserving the security of data sent through undersea cables, a panel of experts said at the Hudson Institute last week.
Concentrating on the “new favorite buzzword, ‘lethality,'†masks the fact this kind of warfare “has always been a part†of the United States Navy’s experience, said Cmdr. Benjamin Armstrong, a professor at the Naval Academy and author of a recent book on early American naval history, at the Hudson Institute panel.
Great power competition and irregular warfare, “in history, they are explicitly mixed,†as they are now, although circumstances have changed with the eras, Armstrong said.
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