vice admiral t w barrett - royal australian navy - naval capability and sustainment
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ADM CONFERENCE 2016
Vice Admiral T W Barrett, AO, CSC
Chief of Navy
9 February 2016
The Nation and the Navy
Continuous Ship Building
The Force as a Fighting System
The Five Tenets of National Naval Capability
Deterrence
Lethality
Availability
Sustainability
Affordability
Navy capable of prosecuting war
Availability of Ships
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Continuous Ship Building Strategy
Certainty for Industry
“ Now What ”
Looking Forward
Admiral Sir Louis Hamiliton 1948
A navy does not drop from the clouds. It is a miraculous and delicate instrument, a creation of nerves as well as steel, united with blood as well as rivets, it is in many ways the greatest expression of a nation’s genius.
