Naval expeditionary logistics : enabling operational maneuver from the sea / Committee on Naval Expeditionary Logistics, Naval Studies Board, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Naval Expeditionary Logistics.

Series:

Compass series (Washington, D.C.)

Compass series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Navy--Supplies and stores.

United States.

United States. Marine Corps--Supplies and stores.

Amphibious warfare.

Operational art (Military science).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 95 pages) : illustrations, charts.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press : Copies available from Naval Studies Board, National Research Council, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At the request of the Chief of Naval Operations, the National Research Council (NRC) conducted a study to determine the technological requirements, operational changes, and combat service support structure necessary to land and support forces ashore under the newly evolving Navy and Marine Corps doctrine. The Committee on Naval Expeditionary Logistics, operating under the auspices of the NRC's Naval Studies Board, was appointed to (1) evaluate the packaging, sealift, and distribution network and identify critical nodes and operations that affect timely insertion of fuels, ammunition, water, medical supplies, food, vehicles, and maintenance parts and tool blocks; (2) determine specific changes required to relieve these critical nodes and support forces ashore, from assault through follow-on echelonment; and (3) present implementable changes to existing support systems, and suggest the development of innovative new systems and technologies to land and sustain dispersed units from the shoreline to 200 miles inland. In the course of its study, the committee soon learned that development of OMFTS is not yet at a stage to allow, directly, detailed answers to many of these questions. As a result, the committee addressed the questions in terms of the major logistics functions of force deployment, force sustainment, and force medical support, and the fundamental logistics issues related to each of these functions.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 A Time of Change for U.S. Naval Forces""; ""2 Logistical Implications of Operational Maneuver From the Sea""; ""3 Force Deployment""; ""4 Force Sustainment""; ""5 Force Medical Support""; ""6 Closing Comment""; ""A Charge to the Committee""; ""B Naval Gun, Missile, and Aircraft Ranges""; ""C Force Sustainment Data and Calculations""; ""D Logistics Productivity of Aircraft""; ""E Committee Biographies""; ""F Acronyms and Abbreviations""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786612083709

9780309173292

0309173299

9781282083707

1282083708

9780309517959

0309517958

9780585057941

058505794X

OCLC:

923257227