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- The Policy and Status of the United States Navy I. NAVAL POLICY. // Congressional Digest;Mar1938, Vol. 17 Issue 3, p69
Examines the policy and status of the U.S. Navy as of 1938. Fundamental naval policies including the maintenance of the navy in sufficient strength to support the national policies and commerce; U.S. Navy's responsibility to guard the continental and overseas possession of the U.S.;...
- Navy Infrastructure: Site Selection Process for the Northeast Regional Command Contained Weaknesses: NSIAD-98-230. // GAO Reports;9/28/1998, p1
The Navy's process for selecting the headquarters site for its new northeast regional command contains weaknesses. In selecting the site, it is unclear to what extent the Navy followed its own criteria for establishing or modifying shore activities or fully assessed the comparative cost of...
- Big Navy Boys. Beard, Charles A. // New Republic;1/27/32, Vol. 69 Issue 895, p287
The author presents the second series of an article on the U.S. Navy. In this article, he focuses his discussion on the role and responsibilities of a naval expert. He explains that a naval expert is equipped with a portfolio of data including mathematical tables and statistics where he based...
- Naval Support for Combat and Supply. Annati, Massimo // Military Technology;2009, Vol. 33 Issue 7, p73
The article focuses on the concept of joint expeditionary operations considered by Western navies, including the Sea Basing concept formulated by the U.S. Navy in 2002. It states that Sea Basing operations can move complex equipments from modified ships to the shore by using connectors,...
- NAVAL SYSTEMS. Walsh, Edward // U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings;Sep2003, Vol. 129 Issue 9, p104
The U.S. Navy moved a couple of steps closer to completing the outline for its path toward force transformation this past summer with the publication in June 2003 of a 'campaign plan' for implementing FORCEnet, the fourth component of Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Vern Clark's 'Sea Power 21'...
- The Real Purpose of Strategy. Friedman, Norman // U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings;Dec2007, Vol. 133 Issue 12, p90
The article focuses on the new maritime strategy issued by the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard in October 2007. The aim of the public naval strategy is to educate the policy-makers regarding the basic realties of the maritime world. It refers to the ongoing attempts of the U.S. Navy to...
- Navy's MDA Effort To Provide Greater ID of Ocean-Going Threats. Fein, Geoff // Defense Daily;11/16/2007, Vol. 236 Issue 34, p3
The article reports that later in 2008, the U.S. Navy will launch the first spiral of its planned maritime domain awareness (MDA) effort that will initially link together the service, federal agencies and allies to provide a more robust picture of the maritime domain. The first spiral is...
- BACK TO THE FUTURE. Legien, Wolfgang // Naval Forces;2008, Vol. 29 Issue 3, p4
The author reflects on the state of the U.S. Navy. He emphasizes that the decision of politicians to assign Navies at 'hot spots' has adversely affected the group's resources. He also points out that this led to the scarcity of Navies that will patrol coasts. He claims that the Navy is useful in...
- navy currents. // Sea Technology;Dec2008, Vol. 49 Issue 12, p75
The article offers news briefs related to the operations of the naval force in the U.S. The U.S. Navy vessel called USS Mclnerney (FFG-8) intercepted a self propelled semisubmersible (SPSS) carrying seven tons of cocaine. The U.S. 5th Fleet engages pirates on hijacked motor ship called Faina....
