The Department of the Navy's vision for military transformation, known as Sea Power 21, rests on three key concepts: Sea Strike, Sea Shield, and Sea Basing. The first two concepts focus on improving the Navy's and Marine Corps's offensive and defensive capabilities, respectively. But the third, Sea Basing, is considered by many in the Department of Defense to be the most transformational of the three ideas. It envisions putting a substantial Marine Corps ground force on shore and sustaining it from ships at sea rather than from a land base. Thus, the Navy and Marine Corps could conduct amphibious assaults (including 'forcible-entry' operations, like those conducted on Japanese-held Pacific islands during World War II) without needing to seize enemy territory to build a base or to get permission from a nearby country to use an existing base. Supporters argue that sea basing would therefore allow U.S. forces to operate overseas more independently, flexibly, and quickly. Although the entire fleet would play a role in the 'sea base,' the most important vessels for that concept are the Navy's amphibious warfare ships-which carry marines and their equipment-and new prepositioning vessels intended to provide much of the logistics support for Marine Corps units operating on shore. Over the next 30 years, the Navy plans to replace most of its amphibious ships as well as buy the new class of logistics ships, which it calls the Maritime Prepositioning Force (Future), or MPF(F).


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    Titel :

    Future of the Navy's Amphibious and Maritime Prepositioning Forces


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2004


    Format / Umfang :

    84 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch