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Published: 1991

Total Pages: 23

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Strategic Homeporting as a concept is not new. Naval planners saw the value of having naval stations on every coast since before WW I. The concept has also not been without controversy since that time, and proponents and opponents of the program today are arguing points that were argued almost 80 years ago. The arguments, for or against, never fully concentrated on the tactical level, or the level from which the actual war fighters had to deal. The arguments were either national strategy of policy related and more often than not were influenced by money in one way or another. Today, because of budget constraints and the corresponding reduction in forces, the war fighter, the CINC for the purpose of this paper, has to respond to crises in his AOR with fewer and less forward deployed assets than was the case just a few years ago; so any increase in flexibility greatly increases the chance for success of his mission. The Strategic Homeport Program, along with the advent of the BB SAG, gives the CINC an added measure of flexibility to respond to crises within his AOR and greatly increases his chance for success.