Seabasing for the Range of Military Operations

Abstract

For nearly two decades, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps have been actively engaged in producing a robust and comprehensive body of seabasing concepts and supporting concepts of operation (CONOPS). In recent years, this work has expanded to include the joint community and has been formalized into naval doctrine. Additionally, a variety of multimedia products has been developed in the past year to assist Marine Corps personnel in providing information to the public. These products have been remarkably consistent in espousing seabasing as an asymmetric advantage for the United States, wherein the diverse elements of sea power could be combined in complementary ways to conduct a broad range of operations ashore. This work can be divided into three phases. The first phase ran from 1991 to 2001. For most of that era, seabasing's utility was usually described relative to war and, reactively, to what was then called military operations other than war (MOOTW). By 2000 the description of seabasing's utility expanded to include proactive engagement activities.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 26, 2009
Accession Number
ADA499587

Entities

Organizations

  • Marine Corps Combat Development Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Combat Operations
  • Doctrine
  • Employment
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Marine Corps
  • Marine Corps Operations
  • Military Operations
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Naval Operations
  • Naval Warfare
  • Navy
  • Sea Based
  • Security
  • United States
  • War Games
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design