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WASHINGTON \u2014 The commandant of the Marine Corps on Thursday defended amphibious warships, even as the Pentagon\u2019s fiscal 2024 budget isn\u2019t likely to offer much support for these platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gen. David Berger, while speaking to a friendly crowd of industry and congressional leaders, said critics of the ships make two incorrect arguments: that the ships aren\u2019t needed under the National Defense Strategy, and they aren\u2019t survivable in high-end conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the Biden administration released its National Defense Strategy last year, Berger said, he\u2019s faced the same questions: \u201cAre they still viable? Do we still need them? Should we be buying them? Their survivability, their cost, we\u2019ve heard all the arguments before. Are they really useful in deterring? Are they really useful in winning a conflict?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe amphibious fleet is exactly the right tool<\/a> to deter our competitors,\u201d he answered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berger said the fleet is critical to deterring the Chinese, but the Pentagon isn\u2019t giving the Navy and Marine Corps a sufficient budget to support that amphibious deterrence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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U.S. Marine Corps Gen. David Berger, the 38th Commandant of the Marine Corps, addresses the Marines of Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 153, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Feb. 1, 2023. (Cpl. Chandler Stacy\/US Marine Corps)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Last year, the fiscal 2023 request called for decommissioning four Whidbey Island-class dock landing ships<\/a> and truncating production of the San Antonio-class amphibious transport docks meant to replace them. It also raised questions about the viability of the America-class amphibious assault ship production line, scheduling procurement of the next ship for FY31, 11 years after the previous one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berger said Thursday the budget should fund a 31-ship amphibious fleet, which the Navy has today but would mean not decommissioning Whidbey Island LSDs until their replacements are built. He also urged buying San Antonio LPDs with a multi-year contract, as well as procuring LPDs at two-year intervals and America-class LHAs at four-year intervals, which industry has said is the optimal rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Amphibious Warship Industrial Base Coalition, which hosted the event where Berger spoke, agrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With advance procurement funds, block buys and the right procurement intervals, industry can cut the total cost, said Dave Forster, the chairman of the coalition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He criticized recent budget requests, which have not provided clear future plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat that creates is: difficult to retain and train the workforce, because you want to invest in your workforce but you do that not knowing what the future holds. It creates an environment where our industrial base will hold back perhaps on investment, as new machines or new processes or new inventions\u201d come along, he said. That\u2019s \u201ccoupled with inflation, so you have the inflationary pressures which drive your profit margins thinner.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AWIBC, which represents 614 companies in 38 states, recently polled its members and found the top concerns of its suppliers are inflation, fluctuations in demand for new ships, difficulty in hiring and retaining qualified workers, challenges from supply-chain disruptions, and the ramifications of build intervals that are longer than industry\u2019s ideal ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berger also called the criticism that amphibs aren\u2019t survivable in a shooting war with China an \u201cempty argument.\u201d He said wargames generally show that China could sink a whole range of Navy ships, but those production lines are slated to proceed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team 1\/4, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, disembark a landing craft, air cushion from the amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay (LPD-20), during platoon size reinforcement training on Kin Beach, Okinawa, Feb. 1, 2023. (Sgt. Andrew King\/US Marine Corps)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The FY24 budget, which the Pentagon will release March 13, is not expected to include significant funding for amphibs<\/a>. Even if the Navy recommitted to two- and four-year intervals for ship procurement \u2014 there\u2019s no indication it has \u2014 those production timelines wouldn\u2019t call for the Navy to buy either an LPD or an LHA in 2024. While Forster said industry will be looking for advance procurement and other signs of commitment to amphibious ships, they\u2019re not likely to see much: <\/b>Navy leadership has said it\u2019s taking a \u201cstrategic pause\u201d from buying LPDs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berger said the pause would shrink the fleet inventory, which would create a problem if a conflict or humanitarian crisis emerges and amphibious ships with embarked Marines aren\u2019t ready to respond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c31 is the floor, operationally and by statute. You can\u2019t do it with one less,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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