2/ Firstly, the word counts:
"Maritime" is found 232 times, but mostly in part of a list of the various domains
"Sealift" is found 9 times
3/ There is an entire chapter on the Maritime Domain:
Here are the table of contents for that chapter
4/ Early on, there is a general description of the various domains, and here is the description of the maritime domain:
5/ This section describes interdependencies among land & maritime domains:
6/ My favorite blurbs about #Sealift:
"As a general rule, once mobilized, it takes at least 30 to 45 days for most Army forces stationed within the United States to deploy to a theater when their equipment is shipped via strategic sealift"
7/ And also re #Sealift:
"Most Army equipment travels via strategic sealift. It will take weeks or months for the equipment to arrive in theater."
With my favorite anecdote about ACCESS (or lack thereof), 🇹🇷 during OEF
10/ Fascinating that US Army FM 3-0, Chapter 7 on #MaritimeDomain, includes a vignette on the British WW2 defeat by Imperial Japanese in Malaya & Singapore, as a lesson on "faulty assumptions"
When do you all start hitting refresh on the DoD Comptroller Budget page?
Do you wait until the press conference starts?
Or do you start now?
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@salisbot
@cgberube
3/ Oh, I guess you don't have to wait until the press conference for some of the budget materials. Some of the #FY25NavyBudget press materials are posted online already.
2/ US Navy's Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV) maintains the
Emergency Ship Salvage Material (ESSM) System, with prepositioned response kit around the world, including in Singapore.
2/ "In foreign policy, 🇨🇳’s leaders chose to preserve close ties with 🇷🇺even after the country’s unprovoked invasion of 🇺🇦, increased the brazenness of 🇨🇳’s confrontations in the #SouthChinaSea and around 🇹🇼, and made more aggressive pushes for overseas basing options"
3/ "China’s aggressive activities in the #SouthChinaSea led to dangerous encounters between Chinese and other countries’ ships and aircraft in the region."