Leaders of the three military sea services spoke
today about the challenges ahead and how the services plan to navigate
through the rough waters.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael M. Gilday, Commandant of the
Marine Corps Gen. David H. Berger and Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl
L. Schultz spoke at the Navy League of the United States' Sea-Air-Space
Global Maritime Exposition at National Harbor, Md.
Navy Adm. Michael M. Gilday
The tri-service navigation plan falls into four bands of emphasis, Gilday said: training, capabilities, capacity and failing.
By failing, the admiral meant pushing the experimental and
developmental envelope, taking calculated risks and learning from
mistakes or failures.
Those four bands fall into two key areas, he said.
The first is water execution problems such as aviation maintenance,
private and public shipyard maintenance, supply chain manpower and
closing capability gaps. He said the Navy is focused on producing
deliverables in those areas in a timely and accountable manner.
The second area is innovation problems, he said. They include unmanned systems and live virtual training.
The focus on this set of problems is on development, testing,
experimentation, learning, and turning this quickly to generate
innovative warfighting outcomes, he said.
"It's our hope that those areas produce for us a more capable, lethal, ready Navy, maybe by the end of the decade," he said.
Marine Corps Gen. David H. Berger
Berger said future warfighters will not offer the luxury of a long
military buildup overseas such as that afforded during Operation Desert
Storm.
Today, training and education, including wargaming experimentation
exercises, is key to building more innovative and adaptive Marines and
their leaders, he said.
The training and education should focus on developing leaders who understand risk and are willing to take [risks], he said.
"All three of us are pushing hard for wargaming experimentation
exercises that force our leaders into circumstances where they have to
make decisions under pressure," he said, referring to the three sea
service leaders.
Good wargaming experimentation will include opposition forces who
have a lot of latitude to make calls on their own tempo, he added.
Coast Guard Adm. Karl L. Schultz
Schultz mentioned the importance of the Tri-Service Maritime Strategy
that the military leaders of the three sea services signed in December.
"It's a mindset where the whole is greater than the sum of the
parts," he said, referring to greater naval integration in all domains
that the document calls for in the face of threats from China and
Russia.
The admiral mentioned that besides his service being a blue water
Coast Guard which can augment global naval power, the service also has
unique law enforcement authorities, search and rescue assets and other
important capabilities.
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