18 April 2013

News Story: U.S. House Panel Chair Looks To A ‘Seapower’ Decade


By CHRISTOPHER P. CAVAS

With the Congressional budget season swinging fully into gear, one key lawmaker is zeroing in on a shift from providing a land-oriented defense posture to one relying more on seapower.

“We’re tying to change the debate on how to do this,” Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., said in a telephone interview Wednesday afternoon. “We believe the last 10 years was a disproportionate sacrifice on the part of the Army and Marine Corps. We think that over the next two or three decades we’re going to have to have seapower and projection forces done correctly.”

Forbes is the new chairman of the Seapower and Projection Forces subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee — in years past one of the most influential naval bodies on Capitol Hill.

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