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The article discusses the need for the U.S. Navy to follow a decentralized command-and-control culture in order to produce combat victories. Topics discussed include significance of the culture in ensuring agile and adaptable naval operations, need for decentralization of command authority and operational forces, and focus on creating a complete and current common operational picture (COP).

The article discusses the issues related to readiness and effectiveness measures of U.S. Navy. The topics discussed include the role of military combats in shaping military competitiveness, inspections of material condition, administration, and crew ability of navy, and self-reported evaluations of inventories and materials.

The article reports on the need on the part of the U.S. Navy to adjust its fleet architecture, and the Marine Corps to develop new concepts, capabilities, and organizational constructs. The naval services will have to continuously evolve to counter the new challenges from a combination of new technologies, a global marketplace of goods and ideas, and changing geopolitical realities. Avoiding detection wills thus take on a new urgency, and operational and tactical maneuver will be essential.

The article reports on the strategy the U.S. Navy will adopt in 2025 when it will operate from a larger number of partner nations such as Bahrain to more affordably maintain the forward posture around the world. The Fleet of 2025 may be smaller, but will have greater reach and persistence thanks to new payloads of unmanned vehicles and weapons. The Navy and Marine Corps will still be the first responders to international crises through combat operations or with humanitarian assistance.

The article focuses on operational concepts which should be included by the U.S. Navy for planning and executing sea conflicts. It highlights the operational concept called the AirSea Battle, focusing on counter sea conflicts in the western Pacific and Persian Gulf. It suggests that continuing modernization efforts plus adopting several developing technologies for naval weapons help in combating maritime threats. It defines operational concept as to employ U.S. forces in a joint operation.

The article reports on the need of a new strategy to rebuild the U.S. Navy in the light of global economic and strategic realities. The question is whether this new direction will result from a series of ad hoc decisions or be guided by a careful assessment of needs. Personnel costs rose over the past decade, even though the Navy shrank by 15 percent to 286 ships from 344. A study by Center for Naval Analyses focuses on three main requirements- dominance, readiness, and influence.

Discusses the importance of maintaining the combat-search-and-rescue (CSAR) capability of the United States Navy. Frequency of Navy involvement in low-intensity conflicts; Lack of CSAR assets evident during the 1991 Gulf War; Factors that have shifted attention from CSAR; Ability of the Department of Defense to maintain a joint policy that directs each service to provide CSAR capabilities for its own forces.