Adapting Command and Control for the United States Fleet

Abstract

The Navy and Marine Corps possess effective and complementary capabilities defined by the character of maritime warfare that contribute to the missions of sea denial and sea control, but in recent decades those capabilities have routinely been employed as separate entities in an artificially divided battlespace. This paper examines how the Naval Force should build an effective operational command organization and common tactical command and control architectures that will enable the integration of Navy-Marine Corps capabilities in order to accomplish sea denial and sea control in the littorals. In order to integrate the 21st century Naval Fleet, Department of the Navy must establish standing Navy- Marine Corps Task Forces under operational control of the Fleet Commander and incorporate the Fleet Marine Force (FMF) into the Composite Warfare Command (CWC) organization at the tactical level.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 08, 2022
Accession Number
AD1177823

Entities

People

  • Joseph D. Phillips

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amphibious Operations
  • Combat Areas
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Command And Control
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Employment
  • Land Attack Missiles
  • Landing Forces
  • Littoral Warfare
  • Marine Corps
  • Marine Corps Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Naval Operations
  • Naval Warfare
  • Navy
  • Sea Control
  • Second World War
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control