By Great North News Services staff reporter

It is being reported by Associated Press that the U.S.Navy has reversed a previous decision and will now push for the construction of a 3rd stealth destroyer.

Just a month ago the Navy had said it was scrapping the Zumwalt destroyer program once the first two had been completed. At that time it was declared that more of the current-generation DDG-51 (Arleigh Burke) vessels would be built instead.

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by Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., James Jay Carafano, Ph.D. and Lajos Szaszdi, Ph.D.

While all the facts of last week's Russian-Georgian war are not clear, enough information--including eyewitness accounts--has been reported in the media to draw initial conclusions about the performance of Russian military forces and the implications of these operations for U.S. defense policies. Unquestionably, the war is a reminder that "conventional" military operations as an instrument of modern combat are far from obsolete. The U.S. and its allies must retain a robust conventional capacity to deter aggression and assist in the defense of its treaty obligations to NATO and other allies.

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