Future Assault Support Concepts: Heavy Vertical Lift in A2AD Environments and High Intensity Conflict

Abstract

The 2019 Commandants' Planning Guidance predicts that future war will occur across widely dispersed maritime terrain, where adversaries actively contest every domain and hold Marine "contact layer" forces at risk. This work will examine how assault support doctrine must be reexamined for use in a contested, high intensity conflict. This work also seeks to analyze the utility of assault support operations in future Marine Concepts, including Distributed Maritime Operations, Expeditionary Advanced Basing Operations, and Littoral Operations in a Contested Environments. Finally, this work examines specific CH-53 Mission Essential Tasks in future war scenarios.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 27, 2020
Accession Number
AD1177786

Entities

People

  • Kenneth P. Mateo

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Air Defense
  • Air Power
  • Air Superiority Fighters
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Amphibious Operations
  • Area Denial
  • Combat Operations
  • Command And Control
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Department Of Defense
  • Employment
  • Helicopters
  • International Security
  • Logistics
  • Low Intensity Conflict
  • Maneuvers
  • Marine Corps
  • Munitions
  • National Security
  • Naval Operations
  • New York
  • Short Takeoff Aircraft
  • United States
  • Warfare

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  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design