Adaptive Defense
Where the Littoral Combat Ship went wrong
The collapse of the Soviet Union removed the threat posed by the Soviet submarine fleets on the high seas, so the remaining threats were minor powers and Soviet allies like Libya, Syria, and Iran, which had local air, naval, and missile capabilities. In the 1980s, the Navy launched the SC-21 study series to define replacements…
The Light Amphibious Warship
During WWII, the US built more than a thousand LST(2) type ships, specifically designed to carry heavy cargo including tanks and other armored vehicles over the ocean to land directly on the beach. These ships were capable of carrying the equivalent of a company of mechanized troops and their armored vehicles, although they were more…
Main Battle Tank Generations
This is my basic conception of main battle tank generations. My general thinking is that, if a given tank is a main battle tank, the tank it replaced was probably also a main battle tank. This means that I will be going all the way back to WWII-era medium tanks. However, to ultimately identify a…
Improving American Logistics in Normandy in WWII
I found three rather interesting Wikipedia articles: American logistics in the Normandy campaign (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_logistics_in_the_Normandy_campaign) British logistics in the Normandy campaign (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_logistics_in_the_Normandy_campaign) American logistics in the Northern France campaign (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_logistics_in_the_Northern_France_campaign) There are three places where I think logistics, particularly movement over the shore, could have been approved. First is the utilization of roll-on/roll-off shipping. To my…
The Third Battle of the Atlantic
One of the common tropes in speculative literature about the Cold War is the idea that the Soviet Navy might have tried to refight the same Battle of the Atlantic that the Germans twice lost. Ideas generally center around the deployment of the massive fleet of Soviet submarines into the North Atlantic to interdict the…
Operational Art in the Ardennes Offensive
The generally laudatory appraisal of German performance during the Ardennes offensive is the result of a systemic malconception of operational art and doctrine that runs throughout English-language histories of the war in Northwest Europe. The result is effectively a view of success or failure in terms of miles of ground gained and divisions destroyed, statistics…
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