Over the past 20 years, the United States military has had difficulty gaining access to land while trying to conduct military operations, such as in Operation DESERT STORM and Operation IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF). Events such as these have caused today's military to seek a viable solution to ensure successful operational maneuver from the sea (OMFTS) and over-the-horizon (OTH) actions. In the future, friendly nations possibly could deny U.S. military forces land basing or transit due to their own sovereign interests. The U.S. military sees the solution to this problem as the concept of sea basing. However, despite influential and significant support from military's top officials, sea basing is not currently a viable concept because it creates a large center of gravity, creates an easy target for maritime terrorism, lacks current support requirements, and faces the scrutiny of current budget issues.
Is Sea Basing Currently a Viable Concept
2005
19 pages
Report
No indication
English
Marine Engineering , Logistics Military Facilities & Supplies , Military Operations, Strategy, & Tactics , Limitations , Military operations , Logistics support , Prepositioning(Logistics) , Vulnerability , Sea based , Naval vessels , Transport ships , Cruisers , Land areas , Terrorism , Access , Costs , Targets , Forward areas , Amphibious ships , Center of gravity , Sea basing , Omfts(Operational maneuver from the sea) , Oth(Over the horizon) , Sea power 21 , Maritime terrorism , Lsd(X) class vessels , Cg(X) class vessels , Mpf(Maritime prepositioning force ships) , Power projection , Forward basing
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