No other service over the last decade has been hit harder by budget cuts and sequestration than the U.S. Coast Guard. In a time when our maritime services have been asked to do more with less, the Coast Guard has been engaging increased maritime threats with its leanest force in decades. While today’s focus is being steered towards the U.S. Navy’s 2016 Force Structure Assessment (FSA), which called for a 355-ship Navy, there has been relatively little discussion about increasing the size of the U.S. Coast Guard. “We are depleted of resources.” Coast Guard commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft recently stated … Continue reading Opinion: Doing the Most with the Least; the Coast Guard Dilemma