Joint Logistics in Afghanistan: Seabased, Focused, or Miracle

Abstract

As operations tempo continues to increase commanders must be able to expect that Navy and Marine forces have the ability to insert forces into a country several hundred miles inland and support themselves at least initially with Seabased Logistics. However, this mission will not be executed in isolation from other services operating in the area. In fact the mission in Afghanistan would not have had the same success without mutual service support. The true success was in the mixing of Navy Logistics doctrine with Marine Corps Seabased Logistics doctrine. This coupled with assistance from the Air Forces' logistics capabilities brought about the longest-range amphibious raid that has been accomplished to date. The Joint Forces must incorporate all the service transformational logistics concepts: Velocity Logistics, Precision Logistics, Seabased Logistics, and Lean Logistics and consolidate them for joint operations as Focused Logistics.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 03, 2003
Accession Number
ADA415360

Entities

People

  • Mikel E. Stroud

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Afghanistan Conflict
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Combat Forces
  • Deployment
  • Lessons Learned
  • Logistics
  • Logistics Support
  • Marine Corps
  • Military History
  • Military Operations
  • Naval Doctrine
  • Naval Logistics
  • Supply Chain Management
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.