Sea Basing - Necessary Transformation

Abstract

The paper examines Sea Basing with regard to operational functions of operational command and control, movement and maneuver, operational intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, operational fires, operational logistics, and operational protection. The focus is on what Sea Basing could provide the combatant commander twenty years from now compared to what current carrier and expeditionary strike groups and maritime prepositioning force ships provide a combatant commander today. The question of whether Sea Basing is really a transformational concept or simply the next logical step in the continuing development of amphibious warfare is discussed with an eye toward the potential capability tradeoffs faced by the combatant commander resulting from technology and cost tradeoffs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 14, 2005
Accession Number
ADA463644

Entities

People

  • Jeffrey A. Ward

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Combatant Commanders
  • Command And Control
  • Force Protection
  • Logistics
  • Maneuvers
  • Military Operations
  • National Security
  • Naval Warfare
  • Navy
  • Reconnaissance
  • Special Operations Forces
  • Surveillance
  • Task Forces
  • Tilt Rotor Aircraft
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.

Technology Areas

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