Naval Expeditionary Logistics
Naval Expeditionary Logistics

Author: Committee on Naval Expeditionary Logistics

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1999-02-23

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 0309517958

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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.

Naval Expeditionary Logistics. Enabling Operational Maneuver From the Sea
Naval Expeditionary Logistics. Enabling Operational Maneuver From the Sea

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Published: 1999

Total Pages: 106

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Operational Maneuver From the Sea (OMFTS) provides the Marine Corps vision for conducting 21st-century naval expeditionary operations. This vision, which seeks to exploit the sea as maneuver space, involves projecting naval expeditionary forces and power directly from the sea onto operational objectives well inland, obviating the traditional need to first seize and secure a beachhead and build up a support base ashore before pushing out to accomplish inland operational objectives.

Logistical Implications of Operational Maneuver from the Sea
Logistical Implications of Operational Maneuver from the Sea

Author: Mark W. Beddoes

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Published: 1997

Total Pages: 33

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The U.S. Marine Corps concept for the projection of naval power ashore is Operational Maneuver From the Sea (OMFTS). OMFTS calls for movement of Marines from ships at sea directly to objectives deep inland without requiring a pause to build up combat power on the beach. Support for ground forces is expected to come from the sea, and be delivered primarily by air. This demands that sea based logistics assets remain sufficiently close to shore to allow air assets to conduct resupply operations directly to the battlefield. The implication of this is that Navy ships may sacrifice operational and perhaps tactical mobility while sustaining the Marine operation. This thesis determines the distance from the coastline sea based Combat Service Support (CSS) assets will be able to maintain and still support operations of a given magnitude, and how tactically constrained Navy ships will be in order to support this concept of expeditionary warfare. It focuses on the time distance weight/volume relationships involved, and takes into account characteristics of the resupply assets, such as aircraft availability, capacity, method of employment, and the effects of combat attrition. Three methods of employing a Marine Expeditionary Unit are studied, ranging from a traditional force mix to the use of small infestation teams. The analysis shows that the available CSS assets will not support a traditional ground force mix at the distances envisioned, but will Support the use of small teams. To fully realize OMFTS and still allow ships to maintain the desired standoff from shore will require a shift to more lethal Marine forces with much smaller logistical demands. Until such a force is feasible, the Navy should plan on providing support to Marines from close to shore. s and mission requirements.

Expeditionary Logistics from the Sea
Expeditionary Logistics from the Sea

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Published: 1999

Total Pages: 57

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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.

Controlling Naval Expeditionary Forces at the Operational Level of War: The Case for Creating a Specialized Command Organization
Controlling Naval Expeditionary Forces at the Operational Level of War: The Case for Creating a Specialized Command Organization

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Published: 2002

Total Pages: 19

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Current doctrine for amphibious operations has failed to keep up with the evolution of joint warfighting doctrine and practices. The Marine Corps has transformed from being a tactical appendage of the fleet commanders to an expeditionary organization capable of planning, controlling and executing a wide spectrum of missions at the operational level of war. Meanwhile, the US Navy's alleged transformation from a blue water to littoral force is not evident when one looks at how the Navy spends its money or trains its officers. The Marine Corps's warfighting concept - "Operational Maneuver From the Sea" - provides a viable concept for the employment of Naval Expeditionary Forces in the future security environment. The Marine Expeditionary Force Command Element (MEF CE) is the best command organization for exercising C2 over littoral operations by virtue of its organization, training and leadership. A standing Naval Expeditionary Force Command Element (NEF CE) should be established in PACOM and CENTCOM to plan and control sea-based expeditionary operations for the Combatant Commander (CC). The MEF CE should provide the core of the NEF staff with the MEF Commander (3-Star) serving as the CC's functional component for littoral/expeditionary operations.

Naval Expeditionary Logistics
Naval Expeditionary Logistics

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Published: 2006

Total Pages: 102

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"This purpose of this MBA Professional Report is to provide a portfolio for U.S. Navy logistics professionals who are members of, or whose primary function is to support U.S. naval expeditionary forces. The report will consolidate and clarify existing planning and logistics publications, guidance, instructions, and deployment procedures, and add elements of the aforementioned from other armed services and government agencies that are lacking in current U.S. Navy documents. The report will augment the Joint operational logistic planning process as it pertains to operational and tactical level planning. The report will also provide guidance based upon anecdotes and opinions of the author that are pertinent in developing unit or deployment-specific logistic support plans for U.S. naval expeditionary forces. Research was accomplished by reviewing numerous documents of military units and federal agencies whose principal responsibility is expeditionary warfare and supporting expeditionary forces. Conclusions and appendices address shortfalls in doctrine that are specific to logistics support of U.S. naval expeditionary forces and training of expeditionary logistics professionals. The appendices will consist of a boiler plate Operation Order (OPORD) that will provide a basic understanding of how to write and understand a basic order, checklists for pre-deployment preparation and deployment sustainment, and an overview of contingency contracting and host-nation support, that are all combined to crerate a working Logistics Handbook."--Page v.

2000 Assessment of the Office of Naval Research's Marine Corps Science and Technology Program
2000 Assessment of the Office of Naval Research's Marine Corps Science and Technology Program

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2000-12-14

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13: 0309071380

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This review of the Science and Technology (S&T) program of the Office of Naval Research's (ONR's) Expeditionary Warfare Operations Technology Division, Code 353, comes at a time of considerable change in the Marine Corps and in ONR, which are currently in the midst of significant transitions. The Marine Corps is making plans to equip and train for engaging in a new style of warfare known as Operational Maneuver From the Sea (OMFTS) and for performing a wide variety of missions in urban settings, ranging from humanitarian assistance to combat and mixes of these suggested by the term three-block war. During 1999, ONR assumed management of that portion of the Marine Corps S&T program that had not been assigned several years earlier to the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory (MCWL). In 2002, control of most of ONR's advanced development funding (6.3), and of much of its exploratory development funding (6.2), will move from ONR's line divisions, of which Code 353 is one of many, to 12 new program offices, each dedicated to demonstrating technologies for future naval capabilities (FNCs). Given these changes, it is not surprising that some of the projects inherited recently by ONR, and assessed by the Committee for the Review of ONR's Marine Corps Science and Technology Program under the auspices of the Naval Studies Board of the National Research Council, differed from the customary ONR project and were more akin to preacquisition or acquisition support than to S&T. It is also not surprising that Code 353 could not articulate its plans for future investments clearly and concisely, given the current uncertainty about the content of and funding level for FNCs. The Marine Corps S&T program supports the five imperatives for technology advancement that the Marine Corps Combat Development Command (MCCDC) has identified as prerequisites for the transition to OMFTS: maneuver, firepower, logistics, training and education, and command and control. The committee supports investment in these areas and, in the report's discussions and recommendations, follows the five imperatives.