is also now dealing with a resurgence from Russia in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic, McGrath said. Whenever two carriers are needed in one of those hubs though - which happened last year in response to Iranian threats and again just last month in the South China Sea - "the brittle relationship between that number of carriers and that number of hubs comes into stark relief," he added.Īnd today, the U.S. Eleven is the minimum necessary carrier count to support the two hubs with continuous coverage, McGrath added, given maintenance and transit-time requirements. The 11-carrier requirement was made law at about the same time as the Navy's 2007 maritime strategy, which enshrined a "two-hub" presence in the Western Pacific and Persian Gulf or Indian Ocean. McGrath cited ongoing trouble with carrier maintenance, readiness woes, and the need for extended or double-pump deployments that have weighed on the force. "If we do not ramp up shipbuilding dramatically, it will be more and more difficult to prevent a future conflict with our adversaries," Wicker wrote.īryan McGrath, a retired surface officer and naval consultant, said while he has great respect for Aquilino, he believes the admiral is wrong to think 11 carriers are enough for the Navy to carry out its global requirements. He urged the Biden administration to embrace a military plan released under President Donald Trump to increase the fleet to 405 manned Navy ships by 2051. Wicker released a statement Monday calling for a bigger Navy in response to growing presence at sea from Russia and China. USNI News reported this month that Pentagon leaders are again considering a reduced carrier force structure as part of its upcoming 2022 budget submission to Congress. Navy aircraft carriers are in high demand across the globe, but the service faced criticism from Congress when leaders in 2019 proposed retiring one early to invest in new technologies. "I think currently that the size of that force is correct unless additional challenges show themselves," he said. I'm curious as to what others think of it so I saved it a spot at the end of the list.Acquilino said carrier strike groups are a tremendous form of deterrence, but demurred on saying the Navy needed more. The 25th is a new naval title coming out from Avalanche Press that I find fascinating and I'm vacillating on picking it up. You'll also notice that I said top 24 games and I list 25 here. Thus a good number of games, some highly rated like General Quarters, Second World War at Sea: Midway and The Royal Navy, didn't get included because they didn't have enough ratings. Keep in mind I used the much dreaded 30 BGG ratings to qualify rule for being listed on the list. You could do a whole geeklist on PTO games and in fact I did not to long ago so we got that covered if anyone want to look back at that one. I did this because while they have a lot of naval stuff in them they are more strategic level Pacific Theater games rather than strictly naval. I have excluded some games such as Empire of the Sun and Fire in the Sky that some may argue belong on the list. Be they hex and counter, card game or whatever. This list features the top 24 naval wargames on BGG. So I decided to take a closer look at the naval wargames that the folks here at BGG rated the highest. So with that in mind I have been perusing BGG looking at some of the naval wargames and there is some really good stuff out there.
#STEEL OCEAN GAME SOVIET NAVY SERIES#
My Tuesday night historical miniatures game group is currently running a WW II North Atlantic campaign I'm participating in and I've been growing more and more interested in the two Avalanche Press naval series Great War at Sea and Second World War at Sea. As you can imagine I've always had a thing for civil war ironclads but now for some reason I'm getting into the big 20th Century battleships. Not sure why, but I'm on a naval warfare kick as of late.
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