[ProudVet77]

Blue Water refers to deep water Navy, mid Atlantic for example. Littoral Navy refers to close to the coast. Brown Water Navy (sometimes referrred to as green Navy) is inland rivers. Look at my profile and you'll see example of Brown water and Blue water Navy.
Gray Navy is the same as Blue Water, it's just referring to the color of the ships, haze gray. The term is usually only used by former Brown water navy types ;) (as a pejorative!)

[Prophet in the wilderness]

So,,, really, the only country that has a effective Blue water Navy, Brown water Navy is the USA ?
I don't remember were I got this statement from, but, I was reading a article onetime.
This person meet Collen Powell at a party, and he asked Collen Powell ( I guess he was still CH of joints chiefs of staff )" who has the most strongest, most powerful military in the world ? " and Collen Powell said " We do ".
And then, this person said, then, " who ranks closest in line to our military in the world ? " and Collen Powell said, that the next country that ranks next to ours in military strength , ranks, 7 th in the world.
But, that was a few years ago, and I sure hope the USA has made great strides in keeping up way ahead of other countries in military strength, and keeping our techeknowligal edge.

[texasflower]

Thanks for that explanation. I had wondered what that meant also.