Steeljaw Scribe

So what happens when you gather together bloggers like Galrahn 0, Eagle1, YHS and several others with VADM Morgan to discuss the Maritime Strategy via a teleconference on a late Thursday afternoon?  This:
 

 
Transcript should be forthcoming soon and will be posted as an update. Transcript’s up and posted below for your reading pleasure:
 

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So your one neighbor, Pakistan, possesses nuclear weapons and is working assiduously on short- and medium-range missiles, no doubt with nuclear delivery in mind as part of a deterrent package against your own nuclear forces.  China, with whom you share a fairly long (and disputed) border has also been engaged in building a modern force of short- [...]

 
Prelude for Round II of the discussions on the Maritime Strategy. 
The document below from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments will provide the departure point for said discussions beginning 31 March here and over at several of the usual suspects: Information Dissemination, CDR Salamander, OP-FOR.com, Chapomatic, Eagle1 to name but a few. Since the [...]

The accelerating spread of nuclear weapons, nuclear know-how and nuclear material has brought us to a nuclear tipping point. We face a very real possibility that the deadliest weapons ever invented could fall into dangerous hands.  The steps we are taking now to address these threats are not adequate to the danger. With nuclear weapons [...]

So the discussion earlier this week  revolved around quantity vs quality and used as an argument in favor of quality that the Navy in the 1920’s and 30’s chose to press technology (and hence chose quality) over quantity (maintaining a large force structure), developing the tools, tactics and laying the groundwork for success in [...]

 OK - enough already with intrusions from the real world, time to re-engage. 

Quantity vs. Quality – how much is enough? It is a question as old as the first armies. Of late, it is one of the central questions in the implementation of the Maritime Strategy when it comes to the question [...]

Maybe you’ve seen it before, maybe you haven’t.  Still bears viewing. 

 As important as one of the bases for the Maritime Strategy as it is for the local school board in building its strategic vision and mapping out budgetary direction.
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