Gates Wants to Shift Priorities of US Navy, Marines

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John T. Bennett, Gates: U.S. must rethink expensive ships, EFV. Marine Corps Times, May 3, 2010 (1 hour ago).
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2010/05/defense_gates_050310/
(Robert Gates questions "whether the United States will need 11 carrier strike groups when no other nation has more than one")

Note:
(a) Navy League of the United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_League
(a national association made up of former members of the United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, the United States Coast Guard and the United States Merchant Marine, and civilians interested in supporting the sea services; founded, at the suggestion of [then president] Theodore Roosevelt, in 1902)

(b) Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expeditionary_Fighting_Vehicle
("the newest United States Marine Corps amphibious vehicle, intended for deployment in 2015; USMC has reduced the number to be purchased from 1,013 to 573 AAAVs by 2015 due to escalation in unit cost)

(c) ISR stands for "intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance."
(d) riverine (adj): "relating to, formed by, or resembling a river"
(e) Littoral Combat Ship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littoral_Combat_Ship
("slightly smaller than the Navy's guided missile frigates, and have been compared to the corvette of international usage")

(f) C-17 Globemaster III
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-17_Globemaster_III
(a large military transport aircraft. by Boeing; in service since 1993)


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