The Coast Artillery Journal. Volume 69, Number 6, December 1928
Abstract
The Coast Artillery Corps is a combatant branch and a supply branch as far as concerns controlled submarine mines. It has always been charged with duties and missions pertaining to coast defense. Prior to the World War, the Coast Artillery Corps devoted itself almost entirely to the problem of harbor defense (including overseas naval bases) by fixed armament and its accessories. But coast defense is a broader term. It includes dispositions and operations having for their object the repulse of a hostile attack upon any portion of the seacoast of the Continental United States, the Panama Canal, or the insular possessions, or upon naval vessels or merchant shipping in or off harbors or in coastwise sea lanes. So our conception of coast defense has broadened from the original idea of the fixed harbor fort with a limited and practically an independent mission, to a defense of the entire coast line, a defense of overseas naval bases, and a defense of important bays and coastwise lines of water communications such as between Boston and New York. The mission of the Coast Artillery has been broadened to cover cooperation with the Navy, with the Air Corps, and with all arms of the land forces in this general mission.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1928
- Accession Number
- ADA497437