Shadowy special ops sea bases are a ‘gap we know we have and we’re working on,’ Navy secretary says

Military Times: The struggle between managing resources for the United States’ counterterrorism fight and an emerging great power competition has quietly begun.

While the U.S. Navy is building up the fleet, the focus on peer-level adversaries like Russia and China is at contention with the responsibility to provide off-shore staging areas for special operations forces.

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