As the United States naval services continue to emphasize operational maneuver from the sea and war in the littorals, potential adversaries are responding with innovative, often asymmetric approaches to coastal naval warfare. Two of these would-be opponents - Iran and North Korea - are exploiting small boat warfare and integrated coastal defenses to blunt, neutralize, or defeat U.S. Navy and Marine Corps operations in their littorals. Effective tactical level, shipborne defenses against small boats are still elusive; however, the application of operational art, particularly the use of operational fires and the proper synchronization and sequencing of operational functions and taskings, can reduce, even defeat, significant small boat threats and coastal defenses in major operations.
Operational Art Can Neutralize the Asymmetric Small Boat Threat in Major Operations
2002
39 pages
Report
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Englisch