US Navy Commander Says Red Sea Combat Generates New Warfare Doctrine

By Kris Osborn, President, Warrior

The US Navy’s ongoing combat experiences in the Red Sea are helping the service further solidify emerging doctrinal approaches to maritime warfare, refine tactics and identify emerging Concepts of Operation suitable for a modern threat environment. 

There are many variables informing evolving military doctrine, such as multi-service autonomy, multi-domain and multi-national warfare, modern concepts of Combined Arms Maneuver for land war, new approaches to amphibious operations and of course ubiquitous manned-unmanned teaming both across and between the services.  

This transformation or maturation of military doctrine continues to be heavily influenced by US Navy Red Sea combat operations, as combat operations there have successfully implemented newer methods of networking, targeting, data sharing and multi-node cross domain combat integration.  A Red Sea Commanding Officer of the US Navy’s Carrier Strike Group 2, Rear Adm. Javon “Hak” Hakimsadeh told Warrior in an interview about his Carrier Strike Group’s Red Sea deployment, 

“Doctrine is what allows us to set up within the Red Sea to be able to put in place command   and control measures, airspace control measures or battle management areas or restricted operating zones to be able to manage the complexity of a multi -domain fight without spending a whole lot of time sorting things out,” Hakimsadeh, affectionately known as “Hak,” told Warrior.