A preliminary investigation of ship acquisition options for joint forcible entry operations /

In the global security environment of the future, sea basing (loosely speaking, the ability to assemble, equip, and support forces from sea platforms without relying on land bases) will be critical to the Navy and Marine Corps' ability to project-and sustain-forces ashore. With sea basing, Mari...

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Corporate Authors:	Acquisition and Technology Policy Center, International Security and Defense Policy Center, Rand Corporation, United States. Navy, United States. Marine Corps
Other Authors:	Button, Robert, Blickstein, Irv, 1939-, Gordon, John, Wilson, Peter A., Riposo, Jessie L.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2005.
Subjects:	United States. > Navy > Procurement. Warships > United States. United States. > Navy > Supplies and stores. United States. > Marine Corps > Procurement. United States. > Marine Corps > Supplies and stores. Offensive (Military science) Unified operations (Military science)
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Summary:	In the global security environment of the future, sea basing (loosely speaking, the ability to assemble, equip, and support forces from sea platforms without relying on land bases) will be critical to the Navy and Marine Corps' ability to project-and sustain-forces ashore. With sea basing, Marine combat power can build up more quickly in a littoral area, and the need to move large amounts of supplies ashore will be minimized. As such, sea basing clearly will be useful in the event of joint forcible entry operations (JFEOs). This monograph describes the global environment in which JFEOs might occur and the role of naval power in that environment. It also examines and analyzes various options for substituting naval ships built to commercial standards (so-called black hulls) for those built to military specifications (so-called gray hulls) to achieve cost savings or enhanced performance.
Item Description:	"RAND National Defense Research Institute." "The research was conducted ... in the Acquisition and Technology Policy Center and the International Security and Defense Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute (NDRI)"--Pref.
Physical Description:	xxii, 126 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 23 cm. Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-6).
ISBN:	083303751X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Related Items:	Supersedes RAND/PM-1523-USN/USMC.