The Evolution of Current Command Relationships in Amphibious Operations Doctrine

Abstract

Constant evaluation of doctrine is required to ensure the Navy and Marine Corps are properly prepared for the next conflict. The Navy and Marine Corps have a history of such evaluation and show flexibility to adapt doctrine, even during conflict as, lessons learned provided by combat operations identify revision is required. This raises the question as to whether the Marine Corps has adapted doctrine to account for any lessons learned in the last decade of conflict. Current Joint doctrine for amphibious operations does provide a high level of flexibility to achieve unity of effort under a single command while allowing the appropriate component to exercise control, relegating other components to supporting relationships. The supported and supporting framework this relationship is predicated upon, however, opens the door for interpretation and should be revised to the firm CATF/CLF relationship in use until 2001 when JP 3-02 was published.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 08, 2013
Accession Number
ADA601759

Entities

People

  • Ryan M. Finn

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amphibious Operations
  • Combat Operations
  • Doctrine
  • Geographic Regions
  • Landing Forces
  • Lessons Learned
  • Marine Corps
  • Marine Corps Operations
  • Military Operations
  • Navy
  • New York
  • Second World War
  • Task Forces
  • Training
  • United States
  • Urban Areas
  • Warfare

Readers

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