From the Sea: Refining an Old Idea

摘要

The Navy white paper...From The Sea: Preparing the Naval Service for the 21stCentury focuses on littoral warfare as the main thrust for our future maritime strategy. This direction is applicable to the foreseeable future where freedom of the open seas will be unchallenged and potential conflicts will exist in nearly every region of the world, in every regional CINC's area of responsibility (AOR). Successful conduct of littoral in the Major Regional contingencies (MRCs) and Lesser Regional Contingencies (LRCs) of the foreseeable future involves joint service employment. This paper examines three cases where United States military forces conducted joint operations in a littoral environment, Operation CHROMITE in Korea (1950), Operation BLUEBAT in Lebanon (1958) and Operation POWER PACK in the Dominican Republic (1965). Each operation was successful in achieving its operational goal and provides lessons concerning joint force employment for use in future operations. Areas examined, in the context of the operational art, including operational planning, command structures and relationships, force employment, and interoperability issues. These historical paradigms point to the following as keys to success in joint littoral operations: (1) a theater level operational commander to interface with strategic and policy level leaders and (2) an on scene joint task force (JTF) commander to provide unity of command for tactical commanders. The Naval service needs to remain focused on the tenets of ...From The Sea: Preparing the Navy for the 21st Century, refining an old idea, the use of Naval forces as 'enabling forces' for joint task force operations from the sea.