{"id":194620,"date":"2008-09-05T07:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/05\/navy-already-shifting-away-from-shallow-waters-danger-room-from-wired-com\/"},"modified":"2008-09-05T07:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T12:16:00","slug":"navy-already-shifting-away-from-shallow-waters-danger-room-from-wired-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/05\/navy-already-shifting-away-from-shallow-waters-danger-room-from-wired-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy Already Shifting Away from Shallow Waters? | Danger Room from Wired.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/defense\/2008\/09\/analyst-navy-sh.html\">US Navy will be shifting strategy away from littoral (coastal) operations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article makes some grandiose statements about how a new networked battlespace will require naval ships to operate further offshore, but I think that this is bunk.  Rather there are two imperatives driving this decision:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Having a ship run aground ends a career in the Navy, even if it was really unavoidable, and littoral operations, because they are in shallower water, increase the possibility of a ground by at least an order of magnitude.<\/li>\n<li>Because of the US history of separation from enemies by oceans, there is a myopic focus on a blue water navy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the US Navy will be shifting strategy away from littoral (coastal) operations. The article makes some grandiose statements about how a new networked battlespace will require naval ships to operate further offshore, but I think that this is bunk. Rather there are two imperatives driving this decision: Having a ship run aground &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1161,1147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-naval","category-tactics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}