Expeditionary Strike Group: Give Way Carrier Strike Group; Final rept

摘要

The Expeditionary Strike Group provides the Joint Force Commander with an asset that is unmatched by any other force: an air, sea, and land force ready to be and remain on station to execute missions throughout the range of military operations within the joint, interagency, and coalition environment. The United States Navy touts the Nimitz Class Super Carrier and its Carrier Strike Group as the most powerful weapon within its arsenal. The Carrier Strike Group is a powerful force optimally employed to fight high intensity, traditional operations. However, as the new Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower states, the United States and its partners find themselves competing for global influence in an era in which they are unlikely to be fully at war or fully at peace. The United States must always be prepared to conduct conventional, traditional combat operations, and the Carrier Strike Group has no peer in those operations, but the time has come to recognize the change in the potential adversary. This environment necessitates the reemergence of the amphibious, naval forces, embodied in the Expeditionary Strike Group, as the United States Navy's preeminent force. Why then does the perception still exist that the Expeditionary Strike Group is less capable than the Carrier Strike Group.