Operational Art and the Marine Expeditionary force (MEF)

Abstract

Recent regional contingencies involving Marine Air-Ground Task Forces (MAGTF) have increasingly pointed to the need for the Fleet Marine Force (FMF) to embrace the concepts and fundamentals related to not only the tactical level, but the additional capability to assimilate the tenets of the operational level of war. The concepts and doctrine related to the MEF headquarters fully embellishing the notions of operational art remains in the formulative stages. General Gray's primer on the subject, in the form of FMFM 1-1 Campaigning, was the opening shot related to this initiative. It was a good point of departure, but a long way from resolving the thorny issues which currently inhibit the MEF full implementation of interactive skills at the operational level.... Operational Art, MEF, MAGTF, Operational Design, JTF, Warfighting, Functions Integration & Synchronization

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 18, 1993
Accession Number
ADA266911

Entities

People

  • Peter D. Kopf

Organizations

  • Naval War College

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil Affairs
  • Cold War
  • Combat Support
  • Command And Control
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Doctrine
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Land Warfare
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Operations
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Students
  • United States
  • War
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

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  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design