RE: [FT]SML question

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On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Ryan M Gill wrote:

> At 8:31 PM -0400 6/18/01, Aaron Teske wrote:
> >
> >Hmm, meant to add in the bit that, while they're more for offshore 
> >ops on someone else's coast, there's no reason they couldn't hang 
> >around our own as well.  It's just that, at the moment, there's no 
> >operational reason for them to do so -- even during the Cold War you 
> >sent the attack subs out to find the boomers well before they got 
> >that close....
> 
> If we're worrying about our Littoral that much (full on combat vs 
> customs/border patrol) then the cow waste has hit the HVAC system.

Current naval doctrine is all about littoral, and hardly about blue
water
(high seas) any more, since the end of the cold war. This seems to apply
to pretty much the whole NATO at least.

Cheers,

   Derk
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