Steeljaw Scribe

Notes and commentary on things present, reflections on a career in naval aviation and serendipitous items as strike me at the moment…

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Naval Operations Concept (NOC) To Be Released Oct 08

September 24th, 2008 No Comments

This little notice arrived in the mail yesterday:
New Navy Operations Concept Will Include Force Structure Details NOC Due By October (INSIDE THE NAVY 22 SEP 08) … Zachary M. Peterson
The 2008 Navy Operations Concept, known as the NOC, will include force structure details not included in the tri-service maritime strategy released last year and in [...]

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Sea-based BMD and the Maritime Strategy

July 30th, 2008 4 Comments

Deterrence. Preventing war is preferable to fighting wars. Deterring aggression must be viewed in global, regional, and transnational terms via conventional, unconventional, and nuclear means. Effective Theater Security Cooperation activities are a form of extended deterrence, creating security and removing conditions for conflict. Maritime ballistic missile defense will enhance deterrence by providing an umbrella of [...]

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Implementing the Maritime Strategy: Integrated Missile Defense from the Sea

June 29th, 2008 1 Comment

Ballistic missile defense from the sea - over the last six months the concept has moved further from test and development to operational reality.  Demonstrated capabilities are expanding the envelope and being delivered to certain designated ships within the fleet.  The question is - in describing these recent advances in ballistic missile defense, including the [...]

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Implementing the Maritime Strategy: Interview With 4th Fleet

April 29th, 2008 No Comments

Well, you know what the poet said about the best plans of mice and men. We had been scheduled to participate in the blogger’s roundtable today with RADM Stevensen regarding the standup of 4th Fleet. Alas, our day job intruded with unplanned, last minute tasking but the host, Jack Holt graciously submitted our [...]

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Implementing the Maritime Strategy: New Naval Operating Concept (NOC) to be Written

November 20th, 2007 2 Comments

Sometimes vindication   comes quietly – as, say, a couple of years later in part of an interview and provides demonstrative proof that there is a core group that ‘gets it’:

“In a Nov. 15 interview with ITN, Morgan said that when Navy officials wrote the NOC in 2006 “we knew we were doing the process [...]

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