The Navy Is Getting Ready for Amphibious War

Just a personal opinion, but I don’t see the military leadership or politicians, accepting the losses incurred by the assault of a well defended shoreline. Way too many strategies to consider that limit casualties.

MCPO Roger Collins - Master Chief, I agree when you look to our "near peer" (China, Russia) adversaries, a conventional amphibious assault would never be considered in hostilities. Between anti ship missiles, shore batteries, mines and man portable systems like the TOW, the US would concentrate on air superiority and envelopment prior to a landing.

PO2 Robert Aitchison - Pretty much same tactics, LOD, T-0 hour, waves, etc.. Transporting troops on an LCAC is a challenge so if you are doing a large movement of troops ship to shore it is either an old world war two type Landing Craft or circle the boats. The America and her sister ship will not have a well deck. Third class and follow on will go back to the standard design. AV-8B is junk and being replace by the F-35B now in full IOC. I am suggesting you build more of what you have. If you want a CV(X) you are talking a minimum of 10 years and $100B dollars then years of overruns and breakdowns. We have to be smarter and buy what we need not what some industry egg head wants to sell us.

I'm going to support the ideas of building up a better amphibious assault ship. I also will say that the old ways of an amphibious assault are in need of a overhaul to effect the current day warfare solutions. So by implementing a wider array of weapons systems technology to the LSD,LPD, and KHA would make troop survivability a more realistic scenario. In addition to this given the abilities of many of our young men and women of our armed forces , consider this (The deployment of mechanized combat drone strikes against fortified entrenchment's prior to the beach assaults. The old days of forces afloat munitions bombardment prior to an assault, would be greatly enhanced with these youngsters talents. Having been a member of the old Navy and numerous sea going commands, I served on some of the older class amphibious craft and saw first hand the ineptness of some of the beach assaults. The loss of life didn't always come at the hands of an enemy, but rather I'll fated equipment and lack of good ole fashioned leadership and constant battle readiness training. I was a black shoe so, I'm not overly concerned about what type of air craft we need to catapult off of a LSD,LPD,or the KHA. Having served onboard 1 birdfarm (The USS Oriskany) not by choice mind you, but rather mission necessary in the South China sea theater. I applaud all Bird farm and submarines sailors for their honorable service and personal sacrifice to this great nation. In addition to the system's potential viability on these amphibious craft, a couple of guided missile syestms would be a great addition. Multifunctional platforms is all I can say would be the future of the Naval Warfare community. We're still going have to have the abilities to transport troops into combat zones. So let's make it to where we can return as many as possible given the nature of combat.. I have had the distinct pleasure of serving with some outstanding blue jackets and United States Marines during operation rolling thunder, eagle pull and frequent wind.

LT Brad McInnis I did both, you would have done fine in a Amphib, just some new term to learn and seems like you are always at sea and anchor.

LCDR (Join to see) - I have a mental block from my deck seaman days and have been scarred. When I was studying for the BM3 test (on a CG), we were told by BM1 and BMC that the test will be heavy amphib ops. So, we had to study all that stuff, and no one on the ship really had no idea how to help us. Granted, when the test came, there were only a few amphib q's!