Light Amphibious Warship: A Mistake for the U.S. Marine Corps and Navy?
By
Daniel Goure
Light Amphibious Warship
The Marine Corps and Navy are moving aggressively to redefine how they will conduct amphibious operations and reshape their fleets of amphibious warships. Perhaps they are moving too fast. The Sea Services are conducting wargames, exercises, and experiments to validate a radically new approach to amphibious operations. However, the Navy has already awarded concept design studies for a new Light Amphibious Warship (LAW) and plans to procure the first of this new class in FY2023.
This could be a costly mistake. The LAW concept may be seriously flawed both technically and operationally. The Navy has gotten itself into serious trouble whenever it moved too fast to procure new classes of warships without establishing a solid foundation for what they could look like and how they would be employed.
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/07/light-amphibious-warship-a-mistake-for-the-u-s-marine-corps-and-navy/
