'Distributed Lethality' Lessons Learned from the LCS Designing the Future Warships

摘要

Captain Wayne P. Hughes Jr., U.S. Navy (Retired)-The January issue is a particularly valuable one. Standing out are two complementary essays, one by Vice Admiral Rowden, Rear Admiral Gumataotao, and Rear Admiral Fanta, and the other by Dr. Cox. The first one, by our surface Navy leadership, describes a future for the surface Navy that is more capable of offensive tactics under Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jonathan Greenert's rubric of "Warfighting First" and executed by a more distributable force. Dr. Cox's article describes the three alternative visions that confused the design of the littoral combat ship (LCS) and resulted in an overambitious, expensive vessel with a growing crew requirement.