Download or read book Seabasing and joint expeditionary logistics written by Ammy Bender and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent conflicts such as Operation Desert Shield/Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom highlight the logistics difficulties the United States faces by relying on foreign access and infrastructure and large supply stockpiles ashore to support expeditionary operations. The Navy's transformational vision for the future, Sea Power 21, involves Seabasing as a way to address these difficulties by projecting and sustaining joint forces globally from the sea. This study analyzes logistics flow to, within and from a Sea Base to an objective, and the architectures and systems needed to rapidly deploy and sustain a brigade-size force. Utilizing the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS), this study incorporates a systems engineering framework to examine current systems, programs of record and proposed systems out to the year 2025. Several capability gaps that hamper a brigade-size force from seizing the initiative anywhere in the world within a 10-day period point to a need for dedicated lift assets, such as high-speed surface ships or lighter-than-air ships, to facilitate the rapid formation of the Sea Base. Additionally, the study identifies the need for large-payload/high-speed or load-once/direct-to- objective connector capabilities to minimize the number of at-sea transfers required to employ such a force from the Sea Base in 10 hrs. With these gaps addressed, the Joint Expeditionary Brigade is supportable from the Sea Base.
Download or read book Seabasing and Joint Expeditionary Logistics written by Amy Bender and published by . This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent conflicts such as Operation Desert Shield/Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom highlight the logistics difficulties the United States faces by relying on foreign access and infrastructure and large supply stockpiles ashore to support expeditionary operations. The Navy's transformational vision for the future, Sea Power 21, involves Seabasing as a way to address these difficulties by projecting and sustaining joint forces globally from the sea. This study analyzes logistics flow to, within and from a Sea Base to an objective, and the architectures and systems needed to rapidly deploy and sustain a brigade-size force. Utilizing the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS), this study incorporates a systems engineering framework to examine current systems, programs of record and proposed systems out to the year 2025. Several capability gaps that hamper a brigade-size force from seizing the initiative anywhere in the world within a 10-day period point to a need for dedicated lift assets, such as high-speed surface ships or lighter-than-air ships, to facilitate the rapid formation of the Sea Base. Additionally, the study identifies the need for large-payload/high-speed or load-once/direct-to- objective connector capabilities to minimize the number of at-sea transfers required to employ such a force from the Sea Base in 10 hrs. With these gaps addressed, the Joint Expeditionary Brigade is supportable from the Sea Base.
Download or read book Naval Expeditionary Logistics written by Committee on Naval Expeditionary Logistics and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-02-23 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the request of the Chief of Naval Operations, the National Research Council (NRC) conducted a study to determine the technological requirements, operational changes, and combat service support structure necessary to land and support forces ashore under the newly evolving Navy and Marine Corps doctrine. The Committee on Naval Expeditionary Logistics, operating under the auspices of the NRC's Naval Studies Board, was appointed to (1) evaluate the packaging, sealift, and distribution network and identify critical nodes and operations that affect timely insertion of fuels, ammunition, water, medical supplies, food, vehicles, and maintenance parts and tool blocks; (2) determine specific changes required to relieve these critical nodes and support forces ashore, from assault through follow-on echelonment; and (3) present implementable changes to existing support systems, and suggest the development of innovative new systems and technologies to land and sustain dispersed units from the shoreline to 200 miles inland. In the course of its study, the committee soon learned that development of OMFTS is not yet at a stage to allow, directly, detailed answers to many of these questions. As a result, the committee addressed the questions in terms of the major logistics functions of force deployment, force sustainment, and force medical support, and the fundamental logistics issues related to each of these functions.
Download or read book Expeditionary Logistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Warfighting and Logistic Support of Joint Forces from the Joint Sea Base written by Robert Button and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The initial finding of this study was that, under the conditions used for the MPF(F) Analysis of Alternatives, the sea base has little sustainment capability beyond that needed for the portion of a MEB that is projected ashore for operations."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Warfighting and Logistic Support of Joint Forces from the Joint Sea Base written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sea Basing, a fundamental concept in Sea Power 21, the Navy's operational vision for the 21st century, is designed to help joint force commanders accelerate deployment and employment of naval power and to enhance seaborne positioning of joint assets. It will do so by minimizing the need to build up a logistics stockpile ashore, reducing the operational demand for sealift and airlift assets, and permitting forward positioning of joint forces for immediate employment. The cornerstone of sea-based logistics on the brigade scale is the Maritime Pre-positioning Force and its future version, the MPF(F). The Maritime Pre-positioning Force currently consists of three forward deployed squadrons of maritime pre-positioning ships, each with five or six vessels with weapons, supplies, and equipment sufficient to support a force about the size of a Marine Expeditionary Brigade for up to 30 days. The MPF(F) will be composed of multiple ship types designed to support a Marine Expeditionary Brigade and provide functions not currently provided by the MPF, such as at-sea arrival, assembly, sustainment, reconstitution, and redeployment of Expeditionary Forces, as well as Expeditionary Strike Group interoperability. Current plans call for an MPF(F) squadron comprising three large-deck amphibious ships, three Mobile Landing Platform transport ships, and eight cargo ships.
Download or read book Sea Basing written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-08-14 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The availability of land bases from which to launch and maintain military, diplomatic, and humanitarian relief operations is becoming increasingly uncertain because of physical or political constraints. The ability to operate from a sea base, therefore, is likely to become more and more important. The Defense Science Board recently concluded that Sea Basing will be a critical future joint military capability and that DOD should proceed to develop such capability. Following the DSB report, the Navy requested that the National Research Council (NRC) convene a workshop to assess the science and technology base, both inside and outside the Navy, for developing Sea Basing and to identify R&D for supporting future concepts. This report of the workshop includes an examination of Sea Basing operational concepts; ship and aircraft technology available to make Sea Basing work; and issues involved in creating the sea base as a joint system of systems.
Download or read book Naval Transformation Ground Forces and the Expeditionary Impulse written by Geoffrey Till and published by Strategic Studies Institute. This book was released on 2006 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviewing the past, present, and future contribution of maritime forces to the conduct of expeditionary operations, the author concludes that the importance of this contribution is growing. He considers the diplomatic and "good order" roles of maritime forces which enable such operations in the first place. He reviews contemporary naval thinking about the nature and the relevance of sea control, and examines changes in the way maritime power may be projected ashore. Finally, the author analyses the extent to which future sea-basing can enable expeditionary forces can meet the challenges of the 21st century. Using past and recent experience, he demonstrates how important maritime outcomes are to the achievement and, equally important, the consolidation of victories ashore. Accordingly, navies around the world are having to adjust their plans and their priorities in order to meet these challenges.
Download or read book Seabasing A Critical Enabler of the Joint Expeditionary Force written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sea basing is an operational concept that will enable naval and joint forces to meet future challenges posed by adaptive, asymmetric adversaries, maturing technologies and anti-access strategies. At the heart of the concept are "afloat bases," where forces, their logistics and other support reside in a secure, network and flexible environment, supported by improved sealift capability for the joint force. Sea basing has attracted increased attention recently: for instance, the Defense Science Board Task Force on Sea Basing called the Joint Sea Base a "critical future joint military capability" for the United States, highlighted the importance of sea basing as a force projection means, and recommended applying new resources towards achievement. Does this operational concept truly have strategic significance or is it merely the next logical extension of expeditionary maneuver warfare? While the concepts underlying sea basing are becoming clearer, its political-military influence on the National Security Strategy and potential ramifications for U.S. diplomacy are not as evident. This paper will analyze and evaluate whether this concept will have relevance in supporting the national security strategy.
Download or read book Seabasing and Ship to Objective Maneuver An Analysis of These Concepts and Their Implications for the Joint Commander written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare is the United States Marine Corps capstone concept for the twenty-first Century. It encompasses the way Marines train, equip, organize, lead, think and fight. It is an integral component of the Navy's Sea Power 21 concept, specifically, its Sea Strike concept. Within this overarching concept are the complimentary concepts of Operational Maneuver from the Sea (OMFTS) Sea Based Logistics (Seabasing) and Ship-to-Objective Maneuver (STOM). This paper focuses on STOM and its enabling capability Sea Based Logistics. Seabasing is a potentially transformational capability dependent upon future classes of maritime propositioning and amphibious ships that will allow for the creation of a sea base from which operations ashore can be sustained without the need for ground logistics bases. This capability frees future naval joint forces from the requirement of host-nation air and seaports of debarkation. It also reduces the logistics footprint ashore for ground forces and allows for rapid movement to multiple objectives via surface and vertical lift assets without pausing at the shoreline in order to establish a beachhead and build logistical sustainment. Forces ashore are sustained from the sea base which in turn is sustained from extended air and sea lines of communications reaching back to intermediate support bases connected to the United States. This system is capable of increasing throughput through the sea base if initial operations grow into sustained operations ashore requiring more forces equipment and sustainment.
Download or read book Jelo written by Matthew Boensel and published by . This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JELO is an Excel spreadsheet model of joint expeditionary logistics operations and allows end-to-end analysis of the options for closing forces from CONUS, through the sea base, to objectives ashore. Sustainment operations are included. the model is flexible and, while the examples in the report involve the 2015 Marine expeditionary brigade, all model parameters may be user specified. The MPF(F) is the subject of current discussion and analysis to determine what its capabilities and capacities need to be. Additionally, there are potentially other platforms to build in order to make Sea Basing a reality - high-speed connectors, assault connectors, and rapid strategic lift ships. JELO can be of use in evaluating the alternatives.
Download or read book Expeditionary Ship to Shore Logistics Can We Get There from Here written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. power projection and sustainment of forces from the sea is hindered by decreased direct access to shore due to larger sealift ships, creating a major choke point in the logistics conduit. Ship-to-shore logistics across undeveloped shorelines remains a challenge that many have placed in the 'too hard' category, and have neglected to seriously consider in long range operational planning. The Marine Corps has resurrected the 'Sea-base Logistics' (SBL) concept as an alternative to Joint Logistics Over The Shore (JLOTS) for Support of Operational Maneuver From The Sea (OMFTS). Both JLOTS and SBL are needed to cover the spectrum of ship-to-shore logistics requirements. The two concepts are complementary; not exclusive. JLOTS will continue to be the most efficient and economical method for moving large volumes of cargo to shore from the nearshore area, while SBL offers the responsiveness, flexibility, and agility needed for OMFTS in small combat operations and for over-the-horizon sea basing. However, both concepts need further development to meet the needs of OMFTS. The U.S. cannot assume that first-class port facilities will be available to logistically support military operations ashore. Failure to maintain an effective ship-to-shore logistics capability for the future will hinder U.S. military reach in power projection 'from the sea.'
Download or read book Application of Heavy Lift Ship Technology to Expeditionary Logistics Seabasing written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Center for Innovation in Ship Design study was conducted to investigate the potential use of heavy lift ship technology to facilitate transfer of cargo and personnel in a sea base environment. Emphasis was placed on rough water operations. The Intermediate Transfer System (ITS) utilizes currently available heavy lift ships as trans-shipment nodes to facilitate transfer of vehicles, personnel, and cargo between large inter-theater RO/RO and container delivery ships and smaller intra-theater vessels. Emphasis was placed on higher off-load rates in higher seas. Alternate uses of the concept such as delivery of lighterage to the sea base, reconstitution of forces, and salvage were explored.
Download or read book JELO A Model of Joint Expeditionary Logistics Operations written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JELO is an Excel spreadsheet model of joint expeditionary logistics operations and allows end-to-end analysis of the options for closing forces from CONUS, through the sea base, to objectives ashore. Sustainment operations are included. the model is flexible and, while the examples in the report involve the 2015 Marine expeditionary brigade, all model parameters may be user specified. The MPF(F) is the subject of current discussion and analysis to determine what its capabilities and capacities need to be. Additionally, there are potentially other platforms to build in order to make Sea Basing a reality - high-speed connectors, assault connectors, and rapid strategic lift ships. JELO can be of use in evaluating the alternatives.
Download or read book Is the Concept of Sea Based Logistics Sufficiently Specific to Enable Doctrine Development written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept paper "Sea-Based Logistics: A Twenty-first Century Warfighting Concept" is a visionary document on future naval expeditionary logistics operations. While providing a broad stroke vision of future logistics, it is not specific enough to underwrite the transition from concept to doctrine. The five tenets that underpin this concept are measured against four criteria to determine each tenets respective doctrinal utility. The tenets are not specific enough in terms of expeditionary force size and composition, seabase protection, and seabase composition. The lack of specificity forces planners to conduct analysis on worst case basis which leads the the conclusion of a paradigm shift in logistics and battlegroup operations is required to meet the needs of the concept. In its present form, sea-based logistics challenges the core of U.S. Navy culture and the way the Navy views itself and is not likely to be accepted by the Navy.
Download or read book Expeditionary Logistics from the Sea written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There can be only one logistics infrastructure to provide attainable flexible and responsive sustainment in support of operational movement and maneuver. While warfighting needs set logistics requirements, the logistics capabilities available for Operational Maneuver from the Sea will, if left unrevised, limit warfighting potential and the courses of action available to field commanders. The Navy and Marine Corps should create an integrated Operational Maneuver from the Sea logistics concept that supports the concept of operations at each stage in the sustainment process.
Download or read book The Joint Expeditionary Force Strike Sustainment Vessel and Joint Unmanned Aerial Support Craft Concepts written by Drexel D. Heard and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global logistical challenges during Operation Desert Storm/Shield and Operation Iraqi Freedom highlighted the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) threats the United States, its allies, and coalition partners will face in the 21st century. Today, U.S. military forward presence relies heavily on foreign access, infrastructure, and host nation support to generate large stockpiles of supplies to sustain joint force operations. To mitigate the forementioned logistical risks, i.e. foreign access, infrastructure, and host nation support, and to further enhance joint force interoperability, the U.S. Secretary of Defense (SecDef) has directed that Department of Defense (DoD) spending be aimed at making the best use of resources through the development of joint systems and capabilities. Moving forward with direction from SecDef, the design, development, and procurement of a joint sea-basing platform recognizes the advantage of a truly integrated and stable transformation investment in science and technology (S&T). Contrary to today's single service sea-basing platform designs, concepts, and strategies, one can posit that an all-inclusive S& T joint sea-basing developmental program, with enablers will offer the Combatant Commander and Joint Force Commander additional tools and options to close, assemble, employ, and sustain joint forces supporting functional, crisis action, and/or deliberate contingency operations.
