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In Press: Talking Huntington Ingalls in the Mississippi Press

by Craig Hooper on April 9, 2011

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure to chat and email with the Mississippi Press’ Kaija Wilkinson, to discuss the future of the Huntington Ingalls’ yard.  I think that yard has its work cut out for it. Craig Hooper, a San Francisco defense consultant who runs the website NextNavy.com, said there are advantages to [...]

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In Press: Making the case for Amphibs on NHPR

by Craig Hooper on March 25, 2011

One of the things that sometimes frustrates me about the quality of strategic debate in this country is that it sometimes becomes something of an echo chamber–where the converted tend to spend an enormous time preaching to themselves.  Public outreach and education sometimes gets a little shortchanged. But given the challenges we face in the [...]

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In Press: Talking a balanced Fleet at The Atlantic

by Craig Hooper on March 15, 2011

In my second piece over at The Atlantic, I argue for the under-appreciated do-anything amphibs.  You can read it here.  But as the budget gets grimmer and grimmer, I fear that some in the Navy are looking to cut amphibious platforms or restrain/downsize the JHSV, LCS or other experimental platforms that may change the way [...]

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In Press: Talking LPD-17′s rehab in the Virginian-Pilot

by Craig Hooper on February 28, 2011

Until last year, one of the most annoying things about being a long-standing LPD-17 critic was the constant push-back from pro-LPD-17 partisans (my criticism began here and, oh, here).  There is no denying that the LPD-17, as planned, is a capable and exciting platform.  The only problem, which the Virginian-Pilot’s Navy scribe Corinne Reilly details [...]

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In Press: Talking Navy aviation and UAVs in the San Diego Union-Tribune

by Craig Hooper on February 14, 2011

On the eve of the Centennial of Naval Aviation, the San Diego’s Union-Tribune’s awesome national security reporter, Jen Steele, filed a piece on how UAVs would transform the Navy.  I was quoted in the story and you can read the entire piece here. Certainly, UAVs are going to have a big role–and make a big [...]

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In Press: Talking tankers with the Mobile Press-Register

by Craig Hooper on January 17, 2011

Had a nice chat about the T-AO(X) program with the Mobile Press-Register’s Jeff Amy last week, and the story dropped yesterday.  Read it here. It’s a good article–making the best of a tough editorial assignment.  Basically, the reporter was put to work assembling this story because some Gulf Coast folks hope that the money saved [...]

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In Press: Talking Korea NEO Evacuation in Time Magazine’s Swampland

by Craig Hooper on December 31, 2010

Had a chance to correspond with Time Magazine’s Mark Thompson yesterday, chatting about–you guessed it–Korea NEO evacuation.  Looks like General Sharp and I are at odds.  The article carries a great title: Betting the Family on Korea.  Here’s my bit: In light of the increasing banging of Korean war drums, is it time to halt [...]

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In Press: Talking Korea NEO evacuation at The Atlantic

by Craig Hooper on December 30, 2010

Chris Albon and I have an article up at The Atlantic to discuss the challenges of getting noncombatants out of Korea.  Aside from my concern that our NEO evacuation plans (and our misguided effort to “normalize” Korean tours) are unready, under-resourced and poorly planned, I think the entire region needs to do some serious thinking [...]

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In Press: the LCS Contracts are awarded…

by Craig Hooper on December 29, 2010

…and Austal got the lowest per-unit award?  Interesting. When all 10 ships of each block buy are awarded, the value of the ship construction portion of the two contracts would be $3,620,625,192 for Lockheed Martin Corp., and $3,518,156,851 for Austal USA.  The average cost of both variants including government-furnished equipment and margin for potential cost [...]

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In Press: Talking Gene Taylor’s Big LCS Move in the Mobile Press-Register

by Craig Hooper on December 4, 2010

Yesterday I got to chat with the Mobile Press-Register’s indefatigable reporter Dan Murtaugh about Congressman Gene Taylor’s (D-MS) change of heart about the LCS program.  Frankly, I am delighted–Congressman Taylor, as an outgoing Congressman and confirmed LCS foe, had no real reason to promote the program.  If he had done nothing, and allowed the Navy [...]

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