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In these instances, the Navy can\u2019t respond kinetically like it would in conflict, but a lack of any response is not a precedent the service wants to set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday told reporters there are still questions on what the Pentagon and the Biden administration will want the Navy to do and buy to prepare for this environment, but answers should start coming together in the next few months as the Global Posture Review wraps up and the new strategy is unveiled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin\u2019s National Defense Strategy \u201cshould give us additional guidance in terms of how the globe is going to be postured, how he sees us in the competition phase and poised for potential crisis against China. And it\u2019s not just in the Indo-Pacific; again, it\u2019s transregional and it\u2019s also multidomain. And so I do think that the NDS should refine how our forces are postured and how we\u2019re going to use them, and it should also give us probably more refined guidance on what our investment strategies need to look like going into the future,\u201d Gilday told reporters Sept. 15 following a speech at the International Seapower Symposium in Newport, Rhode Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NDS should help refine ideas, such as how many carrier strike groups the Navy should have deployed at any given time and how many should be in ready status for a contingency, he said. That information would help the Navy shape its future budget request and understand how much maintenance, training and operations to fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Global Posture Review will contain more specifics, including what the Navy should expect to provide to combatant commanders now that the fleet is freed from the mission of supporting ground wars in the Middle East. The Navy, for the bulk of the last two decades, has had a constant one- or two-carrier presence in the 5th Fleet\u2019s area of responsibility, straining the service and leading to a backup of maintenance and a shortage of available carriers in recent years. The Navy is coming out of the maintenance backup at the same time the Afghanistan mission ended, leaving some to wonder what comes next for the service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"6906\" height=\"4609\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Eisenhowers.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Eisenhowers.jpg.jpg 6906w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Eisenhowers.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Eisenhowers.jpg.jpg?resize=768,513 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Eisenhowers.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Eisenhowers.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1025 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Eisenhowers.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1367 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 6906px) 100vw, 6906px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">NORFOLK, Va. (Aug. 09, 2020) Sailors assigned to USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) man the rails as the ship returns to Naval Station Norfolk after a regularly scheduled deployment in support of maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet. Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group has remained underway as a ready carrier strike group during the COVID-19 global pandemic. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jason Pastrick\/Released)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gilday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/video\/2021\/09\/08\/chief-of-naval-operations-adm-michael-gilday-defense-news-conference-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\">said last week during the Defense News Conference<\/a> that the joint force must be able to provide an over-the-horizon counter-violent extremist organization capability following the withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan. That\u2019s still under development through the posture review \u201cin terms of tactically how we\u2019re going to carry that out,\u201d and those decisions would affect the final force posture recommendations, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the service should continue operations in U.S. Central Command\u2019s area of responsibility, but \u201cthe extent to which we are engaged, we need to figure that out with respect to other global commitments, but it\u2019s a maritime AOR with three major chokepoints that we can\u2019t walk away from. So there has to be a maritime presence there. And I don\u2019t think it necessarily has to be a 1.0 continuous carrier strike group or [amphibious ready group] presence, but we can\u2019t be absent from that important theater.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also said naval presence in the Pacific and around Europe will be important and must be balanced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also told reporters that the Global Posture Review \u201cdrew some conclusions before the drawdown from Afghanistan\u201d that would have to be revisited once the counter-VEO tactics were hashed out, but he did not provide a time frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gilday told Defense News during the call with reporters that the Navy needs to shift its mindset to prepare for deployments to areas of competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t think that the United States necessarily needs to be provocative; I do think we need to be out there, I do think we need to be out there in numbers,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s why readiness and training have been my top priority right in the beginning \u2014 is that it doesn\u2019t matter how big a navy you have if you can\u2019t sustain it, if it isn\u2019t ready to go, if its magazines aren\u2019t full of ammunition, if you don\u2019t have the right people in the billets on those ships, if you don\u2019t have the right training, if you don\u2019t have parts in storerooms.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro was also at the symposium, during which he gave one of his first major speeches since being sworn last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe United States believes that every nation has a right to defend itself when truly threatened \u2014 when truly threatened. Every nation has a right to build, exercise and operate military forces to protect legitimate national security interests \u2014 legitimate national security interests. Every nation has the right to promote prosperity, opportunity and innovative capabilities of its own people. And every nation has the right to navigate the sea lanes and the skies in accordance with international laws,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut no nation \u2014 and I say this again \u2014 no nation has the moral high ground to deny these rights to its peaceful neighbors. No nation has the right to claim longstanding international waters as their own. No nation has the right to sponsor cyber crime and theft. And no nation has the right to endanger sailors and pilots with reckless approaches and harassing, bullying behaviors. 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