Strategic Sealift Funding Policy: Will It Keep Our Defense Policy Afloat

Abstract

The fall of communism throughout most of the world, and particularly the collapse of the Soviet Union, marked the end of the cold war. These dramatic events have given rise to a new National Military Strategy. This new strategy has a regional focus and has as key components the concepts of 'Forward Presence' and 'Power Projection'. With the United States defense establishment retrenching due to a reduced global threat environment and austere fiscal resources, we will have far less forces stationed overseas with a greater need to reinforce those forces with strategic mobility assets. To meet the objectives of the new strategy, we must now place a greater reliance on the strategic mobility triad consisting of airlift, sealift and prepositioning

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 15, 1993
Accession Number
ADA264844

Entities

People

  • Harold L. Hagans Jr

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aircrafts
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Deployment
  • Governments
  • Logistics
  • Maritime Industry
  • Military Equipment
  • National Security
  • Navy
  • Persian Gulf
  • Shipbuilding
  • United States
  • United States Transportation Command
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Strategic Security Studies