The Unified Command Plan and the Navy's Organizational Plan: Is it Time for the Navy to Change?

Abstract

The Unified Command Plan (UCP) has undergone an evolutionary process since its creation in 1947. The Navy's organizational plan has not followed that same evolutionary process. The Navy's lack of change is directly impacting the new initiatives concerned with CONUS based joint training under USACOM. The importance of CONUS based joint training is greatly increasing due to the drawdown of US military forces. This drawdown has seen the majority of forces redeploy to CONUS bases from their forward overseas bases. This means the CONUS based forces must be ready to deploy and fight in a joint environment with very little notice and do not have the opportunity to train in the actual theater of potential operations. This paper compares the current UCP with the Navy's organizational plan and explores potential changes to improve both structures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 06, 1996
Accession Number
ADA307599

Entities

People

  • James M. Hudson Jr

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Air Force
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Department Of Defense
  • Military Force Levels
  • Military Operations
  • Naval Operations
  • Organizational Structure
  • Second World War
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States
  • United States Central Command
  • United States Pacific Command
  • United States Strategic Command
  • United States Transportation Command
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

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