A green-water navy is a maritime force that is capable of operating in its state's littoral zones and has limited competency to operate in the surrounding...

"blue-water navy" is a maritime geographical term in contrast with "brown-water navy" (littoral waters and near to shore) and "green-water navy" (near...

Brown-water navies are contrasted with seaworthy blue-water navies, which can independently conduct operations in the open ocean. Green-water navies, which...

oceans to "green" and the term all but disappeared. After the Cold War, US amphibious taskforces were sometimes referred to as the green-water navy, in contrast...

littoral applications (brown-water navy), open-ocean applications (blue-water navy), and something in between (green-water navy), although these distinctions...

and deployable than a navy that just maintains corvettes or gunboats. A frigate navy can be a green water navy or a brown water navy, depending on how logistics...

Ukrainian counteroffensive reached the border of Crimea. Blue-water navy Green-water navy Exercise RIMPAC Expeditionary maneuver warfare Expeditionary...

conventional green-water navy, as it mostly operates regionally, namely in the Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, and northwest quarter of the Indian Ocean. The Navy aims...

South Pacific. The Royal Australian Navy was initially a green-water navy, as the Royal Navy provided a blue-water force to the Australian Squadron, which...

Navy has had command of the sea. Few navies can operate as blue-water navies, but "many States are converting green-water navies to blue-water navies...