Download or read book The Need for the United States Army to Possess a Landing Craft with Maneuver Capabilities written by Philip S. Raumberger and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) was used in Army and Joint combat, stability, and support to civil authority operations for over 50 years. The LCM is the Army's smallest, most practical capability to conduct operational maneuver within the littorals to achieve tactical success, move operationally ready forces by water to austere access points, and rapidly enable sustainment operations via inland waterways. The LCM has exceeded its operational lifecycle and does not meet the Joint Task Force Commanders' required capabilities for waterborne operations. Those requirements include: to carry an M1A2 tank, to maneuver "combat ready" Stryker vehicles, and to rapidly maneuver and deploy combat forces. The Army concept framework together with the Army Transportation Corps' Capability Based Assessment (CBA) of Army watercraft and historical landing craft uses provides a case study into the landing craft capability gap. The Army must decide whether to retain, divest, or pursue a new material landing craft solution that meets the needs of the Joint Task Force Commander. CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION * Historical Uses of Army Landing Craft * Landing Craft Requirements Grounded in Doctrine * The Army Landing Craft Fleet * Logistics Support Vessel * Landing Craft Utility 2000 * Landing Craft Mechanized 8 * CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW * The U.S. Army Capstone Concept * The U.S. Army Operating Concept * The Functional Concept for Movement and Maneuver * The Functional Concept for Sustainment * Army Water Transport Operations * The Landing Craft Air Cushioned (LCAC) * The Army Watercraft Master Plan * Army Transportation Functional Area Analysis (FAA) * Army Watercraft Functional Needs Analysis (FNA) * Army Watercraft Function Solution Analysis (FSA) * Maneuver Support Vessel (Light) Request For Information * How The Army Runs (HTAR), Handbook * The Joint Concept for Entry Operations Vietnam Studies, Riverine Operations 1966-1969 * Operation Just Cause, The Incursion into Panama * The Need for America's Amphibious Capability * CHAPTER 3 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY * Qualitative Research Method.. Case Study Method * Capability Based Assessment Analysis Model * CHAPTER 4 ANALYSIS * Introduction * Common Scenario Requiring the MSV(L) Findings * What capabilities must the Army retain to meet JTF requirements for waterborne operations? * What capabilities exist to fulfill waterborne requirements? * What is the best way for the Army to fulfill waterborne operations capabilities? * CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS * Conclusions * Recommendations * Field a Material Solution * Incorporate Solutions within Doctrine, Policy, Leadership, and Education * Approaches . Recommendations for Further Study
Download or read book Has the U S Landing Craft Air Cushion Accomplished the Missions of the Naval Expeditionary Forces Considering the Landing Craft Historical Development and Current Expeditionary Operations written by Robert P. Irelan and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Force Multiplying Technologies for Logistics Support to Military Operations written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mission of the United States Army is to fight and win our nation's wars by providing prompt, sustained land dominance across the full range of military operations and spectrum of conflict in support of combatant commanders. Accomplishing this mission rests on the ability of the Army to equip and move its forces to the battle and sustain them while they are engaged. Logistics provides the backbone for Army combat operations. Without fuel, ammunition, rations, and other supplies, the Army would grind to a halt. The U.S. military must be prepared to fight anywhere on the globe and, in an era of coalition warfare, to logistically support its allies. While aircraft can move large amounts of supplies, the vast majority must be carried on ocean going vessels and unloaded at ports that may be at a great distance from the battlefield. As the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have shown, the costs of convoying vast quantities of supplies is tallied not only in economic terms but also in terms of lives lost in the movement of the materiel. As the ability of potential enemies to interdict movement to the battlefield and interdict movements in the battlespace increases, the challenge of logistics grows even larger. No matter how the nature of battle develops, logistics will remain a key factor. Force Multiplying Technologies for Logistics Support to Military Operations explores Army logistics in a global, complex environment that includes the increasing use of antiaccess and area-denial tactics and technologies by potential adversaries. This report describes new technologies and systems that would reduce the demand for logistics and meet the demand at the point of need, make maintenance more efficient, improve inter- and intratheater mobility, and improve near-real-time, in-transit visibility. Force Multiplying Technologies also explores options for the Army to operate with the other services and improve its support of Special Operations Forces. This report provides a logistics-centric research and development investment strategy and illustrative examples of how improved logistics could look in the future.
Download or read book Operation and Maintenance of LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Has the U S Landing Craft Air Cushion Accomplished the Missions of the Naval Expeditionary Forces Considering the Landing Craft Historical Development and Current Expeditionary Operations written by Robert P. Irelan and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the historical development of the landing craft and the roles and missions of the landing craft air cushion (LCAC). In examining the development of the modern landing craft from Gallipoli to Operation Desert Storm, a conclusion to the evolution of the landing craft can be reached. Once a determination as to the logical evolving of the conventional landing craft into the LCAC can be made, then an assessment as to the LCAC in modern day missions can be made. This study examines the evolution of the LCAC and makes an analysis of the recent missions that the LCAC participated in. The impetus for this research was to respond to the question of whether the LCAC fulfills modern day roles in expeditionary operations. This study determines that a current analysis of the LCAC in expeditionary missions could be accomplished by studying predominantly the historic roles of the landing craft. Roles that focus primarily on the landing craft as the primary movement of equipment and troops to the shore from amphibious shipping at sea. Current operations take into account the ability of the LCAC to operate from beyond the horizon. With the LCAC's speed and maneuverability what role will it have in the expeditionary doctrine of Operational Maneuver from the Sea? Deployment of landing craft including the LCAC is, for this study, delivered to the area of operations and then utilized for amphibious operations.
Download or read book Deep Maneuver written by Jack D Kern Editor and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 5, Deep Maneuver: Historical Case Studies of Maneuver in Large-Scale Combat Operations, presents eleven case studies from World War II through Operation Iraqi Freedom focusing on deep maneuver in terms of time, space and purpose. Deep operations require boldness and audacity, and yet carry an element of risk of overextension - especially in light of the independent factors of geography and weather that are ever-present. As a result, the case studies address not only successes, but also failure and shortfalls that result when conducting deep operations. The final two chapters address these considerations for future Deep Maneuver.
Download or read book Landing Craft Crewman s Handbook 1968 written by United States. Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Naval Expeditionary Logistics written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-02-09 with total page 109 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 Over the Beach written by Donald W. Boose and published by www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK. This book was released on 2010 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the definitive history of the extensive but little known U.S. Army amphibious operations during the Korean War, 1950-1953. Provides insights to modern planners crafting future joint or combined operations in that part of the world.Originally published in 2008. Illustrated.
Download or read book United States Army Aviation Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Evolution of US Army Tactical Doctrine 1946 76 written by Robert A. Doughty and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper focuses on the formulation of doctrine since World War II. In no comparable period in history have the dimensions of the battlefield been so altered by rapid technological changes. The need for the tactical doctrines of the Army to remain correspondingly abreast of these changes is thus more pressing than ever before. Future conflicts are not likely to develop in the leisurely fashions of the past where tactical doctrines could be refined on the battlefield itself. It is, therefore, imperative that we apprehend future problems with as much accuracy as possible. One means of doing so is to pay particular attention to the business of how the Army's doctrine has developed historically, with a view to improving methods of future development.
Download or read book Professional Journal of the United States Army written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2005 S Hrg 108 440 Part 1 February 4 10 March 2 4 11 23 25 April 1 May 13 2004 108 2 Hearings written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
