‘If It Floats, It Fights:’ Navy’s New Small Ship Strategy
Existing amphibious ships might be the "Swiss Army Knife of the fleet," but the Navy and Marines want an enemy who "jumps on it in the opening gambit...they're gonna have the shock of their life."
By Paul McLeary on August 28, 2020 at 2:06 PM
The 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit moves through the Gulf of Aden during an amphibious assault rehearsal.
WASHINGTON: We’re getting the first glimpses of the Navy’s new force structure plan, as officials begin dropping clues about the Pentagon’s months-long effort to war game new plans for modernizing the Navy and Marine Corps.
Previous comments from the reform-minded Marine Commandant have suggested that those plans will include moving Marines from large, big-deck amphibious ships to smaller, faster and harder to track ships that can move Marines around contested areas in the western Pacific or the crowded Baltic Sea quickly.
And it’s become clear that one way to do that is to buy dozens of what’s being dubbed the light amphibious warship, or LAW.
https://breakingdefense.com/2020/08/if-it-floats-it-fights-navys-new-small-ship-strategy/
