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Power Projection From the Seabase Issues, Challenges, Opportunities

Explore the challenges and opportunities in projecting power from the sea, including rapid response capabilities, joint force integration, and transforming naval capabilities for decisive operations.

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Power Projection From the Seabase Issues, Challenges, Opportunities

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  1. Power Projection From the Seabase Issues, Challenges, Opportunities James N. Strock Deputy Director Expeditionary Force Development Center Marine Corps Combat Development Command Quantico, VA 22134 703-784-6094 james.strock@usmc.mil

  2. Changing Security Environment • More competitors, more actors, more complex contingencies, and broader mission range • Global war against terrorists • Homeland Defense • Complex mix of humanitarian, peacemaking and high intensity combat • Greater need to deter forward, respond rapidly and operate flexibly • Premium on speed, flexibility and agility • Must defeat or avoid anti-access threats, and possess ability to operate independent of constraints in austere environments at great distance • Exploit our use of Global Commons (Sea, Cyber, Space) • Operate in chaotic “Three Block War” scenarios

  3. Operational Context • Threat Complexity • High degree of uncertainty and ambiguity • Increased complexity of asymmetric threats • COCOM Immediate Response Capability Gaps • Focused, actionable intelligence and “eyes on target” • Rapid standup of JTF C2 • Ability to apply tailored combat power immediately, including Special Operations • COCOM Rapid Response Capability Gaps • Tailorable, Scalable, & Modular Capabilities Rapid Transition from Crisis to Joint Forcible Entry Operations (JFEO)

  4. Today Organize Part of the joint force JTF Capable Deploy Forcible Entry < 30 days MEF 35 – 60 days Employ Port, airfield & infrastructure dependent Dispersed or concentrated Tomorrow Organize Integrate & employ Joint / Multi-National Force Packages CTF HQ Deploy Forcible Entry < 14 days MEF w/ CTF HQ < 30 days Employ Sea Based Distributed and network-enabled Transforming Naval Capabilities Speed, Flexibility, Agility

  5. Naval Capability SetsTask Organized • Persistent: Provide an agile & networked sea-based force, to assure allies, dissuade & deter adversaries • ESG w/ MEU(SOC), CSG w/CVW • Immediate: Generate actionable intelligence, employ joint fires, establish JTF C2, seize the initiative • ESG w/ MEU(SOC) - Or- CSG w/CVW: 6 hrs – 10 days • Rapid: Execute Joint Forcible Entry, enabling follow-on Joint Force operations • ESG + CSG + MPG w/ MEB = ESF: 10 - 14 days • Decisive: Initiate extended Major Combat Operations • ESF + Avail MPGs, ESGs, CSGs, MSC, ATFs w/ MEF: c20 - 30 days Challenges  Concepts  Capabilities

  6. Today’s ARG / MEU(SOC) Limited Naval Surface Fire Support & TACAIR Employ – Persistent & Immediate6 Hrs to 10 Days Tomorrow's ESG w/ MEU(SOC) Integrates & employs joint & combined force packages JTF Enabler Independent & mutually supporting ops Networked & distributed simultaneous ops Enhanced joint & organic combined - arms Actionable intelligence “Recon Pull” of the JTF/MEB Limited Intelligence Optimized to generate and exploit Actionable Intelligence

  7. Host Nation permission Strategic independence Needs secure port & airfield Relies on “Iron Mountain” At-sea arrival & assembly Sea-based sustainment Cornerstone of the emerging Joint seabase Employ – Rapid 10 to 14 Days Today’s MPF MEB Tomorrow’s MPG w/ MEB USMC Specific Optimized to Assure Access, Enable Joint Forcible Entry

  8. Employ - Decisive 20 to 30 Days Today’s MEF Tomorrow’s MEF Deliberate deployment, delayed force closure Accelerated deployment, employment & sustainment MEF in 35 - 60 days MEF in 20-30 days Dispersed & concentrated Distributed & networked JTF Capable Joint Interagency Task Force Headquarters Optimized for Transition to Extended Major Combat Operations

  9. Distributed Operations • Network-enabled forces, operating as decentralized units (Squad to Battalion) • Applicable from Stability and Security Ops (SASO) to Joint Forcible Entry Ops • Capable of distributed and/or concentrated ops • Generating “actionable intell” in complex terrain or ambiguous situations • High conversion rates of information to action—greater velocity of action “ Our most effective weapon remains the individual Marine who out-learns, out-thinks, and out-fights any adversary.” Gen. M. W. Hagee Additive Capability: Speed, Flexibility, Agility 21

  10. Distributed OperationsAt the Operational Level Complex and Distributed Battlespace

  11. In addition to what we do today “Raising the Bar”- increased tactical capabilities Advanced training - Patrolling - Reconnaissance - Targeting Distributed Swarming Concentrated Distributed OperationsAt the Tactical Level • Advanced technologies - Over the horizon/On the move comm - Hybrid powered tactical mobility - Improved target location devices Exploiting the Ability of Our Small Unit Leaders

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