Steel Knight focused on contested maritime operations, with assets operating from far-off Forward Arming and Refueling Points and Air-Delivered Ground Refueling nodes in the ‘hub-and-spoke' concept.

What is the result of the best defence of a fleet being to cease acting like a fleet? That question is the key point in the transition of the Navy to the concept of Distributed Maritime Operations ...

RMKS/ 1. This C-NOte introduces how our future force design will be built upon the Golden Fleet initiative to ensure American maritime power remains credible, resilient, and lethal. The Golden Fleet ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: For nearly ten years now, the Navy has been vigorous with efforts to solidify a transition away from more than a decade of counterinsurgency, anti-piracy... Here’s ...

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A 2023 Defense News report revealed that the Marine Corps has started developing a new class of smaller prepositioning ships designed to operate inside contested maritime environments. [5] These ships ...

Australia can benefit by adopting the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps’ frameworks of Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO) and Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO). These concepts offer actionable ...

Without the leaders in place to implement the president’s orders, momentum behind US maritime strategy is at risk of stalling. For those working to restore America’s maritime industry, these are ...