Global reach : revolutionizing the use of commercial vessels and intermodal systems for military sealift, 1990-2012 / Vice Adm. A. J. Herberger, USN (Ret.), Kenneth C. Gaulden, and Cdr. Rolf Marshall, USN (Ret.).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herberger, Albert Joseph, 1931- author.

Gaulden, Kenneth C., author.

Marshall, Rolf, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military sealift--United States--History--20th century.

Military sealift.

Military sealift--United States--History--21st century.

Merchant marine--United States--History--20th century.

Merchant marine.

Merchant marine--United States--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (545 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Global Reach presents a unique view of the fiscal constraints facing the Department of Defense and the U.S. Government. It calls for U.S. policymakers and the general public to understand the message within the book. With this understanding, the United States will ensure its future ability to acquire and maintain the sealift capability to respond to these challenges in the years to come. The twenty years following the Persian Gulf Conflict (1990-91) saw a revolution in the means by which the United States military deploys and sustains U.S. armed forces worldwide during contingencies. Historically, 95 percent of the equipment and supplies our military needs to fight and win in combat are delivered by ship. That remains true today. What has changed is how those cargoes are delivered in theater. For almost as long as nations sought to deploy military forces by sea, they relied on commercial “Ships Taken Up From Trade" to meet those needs. This changed for the United States with the global conflicts of the twentieth-century. With millions of troops deployed oversea and the need to simultaneously supply allied nations with tools of war and food and supplies for their civil economies, the need for sealift exceeded what the commercial fleet could supply. For the First and Second World Wars, America's mobilization including the construction of thousands of government-owned merchant type ships for sealift. This Government-owned fleet model remained the general practice after 1945 as U.S. forces during both the Korean and Vietnam conflicts were in large part deployed and supplied by the same ships as had supported the Allied victories in Europe and the Pacific. The Persian Gulf Conflict signaled a need for change. Not only had the nature of the conflicts changed, but so too had the commercial maritime industry in the United States and worldwide. Working in

close cooperation with its commercial industry partners, including carriers and maritime labor, the U.S. military over the next decade revolutionized the use of commercial vessels and intermodal systems for military sealift. By 2002, the then Commander of the U.S. Transportation Command, General John W. Handy, USAF, in testimony before the U.S. Congress stated that “[w]e simply cannot, as a nation, fight the fight without the partnership of the commercial maritime industry." By 2009-10, not only was 95 percent of all equipment and supplies required by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan still being delivered by ship, but over 90 percent of those cargoes were being transported by United States-flag commercial vessels and U.S. citizen crews in regular commercial liner services. This is the story of that revolution in military sealift.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; PART I: THE PAST AS PROLOGUE ; 1. Ships Taken Up from Trade ; PART II: THE ERA OF GOVERNMENT FLEETS; 2. The Spanish-American War and World War I ; 3. The Merchant Marine Act of 1936; 4. World War II ; 5. Strategic Sealift in the Post-World War II Era ; 6. Vietnam (1960-1975) ; 7. The Reagan Era ; 8. National Security Sealift Policy (1989) ; PART III: THE 1990s: A DECADE OF CHANGE ; 9. The Persian Gulf Conflict (1990-1991) ; 10. Maritime Reform, 1992; 11. Modernizing the U.S. Government-Owned Organic Sealift ; 12. The Maritime Security Act of 1996

13. The Tranformation of the U.S. Commercial Shipping Industry 14. The Maritime Security Act of 2003; PART IV: TRANSITION TO INCREASED RELIANCE ON THE COMMERCIAL FLEET; 15. Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom (2002-2011) ; 16. Meeting the Challenges of Sustaining Forces in Afghanistan ; 17. Supporting the U.S. Military Worldwide ; PART V: THE STRATEGIC SEALIFT FORCE ; 18. The U.S. Government-Owned and-Controlled Fleet; 19. The U.S. Flag Commercial Fleet: Maritime Security Fleet; 20. The U.S.-Flag Commercial Fleet: Foreign Trading (Non-MSP)

21. The U.S.-Flag Commercial Fleet: Domestic Fleet22. The Increasing Role of the Commercial Fleet in Sealift Surge Operations ; 23. Enhancing the Role of the Commercial Industry in Military Sealift ; PART VI: The Benefits of Using Commercial Vessels and Inermodal Systems for Military Sealift ; 24. Maximizing Sealift Capability, Operational Readiness, and Reliability; 25. Providing Immediate Expansion of U.S. Sealift Capability ; 26. Sustaining the Manpower Pool ; 27. Cost-Effective Means of Acquiring Sealift Capability ; PART VII: MAINTAINING MILITARY AND COMMERCIAL VIABILITY

28. The 2006 Amendments to the Maritime Security Act of 200329. Extending the 2003 Maritime Security act to 2025; 30. The Four Pillars of Commercial Sealift Capability ; 31. Assessing National Defense Sealift Policies ; Conclusion ; Appendix ; 1. Glossary; 2. Summary of All CENTCOM OEF/OIF Cargo (2002-2011); 3. Combined CENTCOM OEF/OIF Cargo by Phase (2002-2011) ; 4. CENTCOME OEF/OIF Container Cargo by Phase (2002-2011) ; 5. CENTCOM EOF/OIF Breakbulk/Roll-on/Roll-off Cargo by Phase (2002-2011) ; 6. Combined CENTCOM OEF/OIF Cargo (2002-2005); 7. CENTCOM OEF/OIF Container Cargo (2002-2005)

8. CENTCOM OEF/OIF Breakbulk/Roll-on/Roll-off Cargo (2002-2005)9. Combined CENTCOM OEF/OIF Cargo (2006-2008) ; 10. CENTCOM OEF/OIF Container Cargo (2006-2008); 11. CENTCOM OEF/OIF Breakbulk/Roll-on/Roll-off Cargo (2006-2008); 12. Combined CENTCOM OEF/OIF Cargo (2009-2011); 13. CENTCOM OEF/OIF Container Cargo (2009-2011); 14. CENTCOM OEF/OIF Breakbulk/Roll-on/Roll-off Cargo (2009-2011); 15. CENTCOM Cargo by Routing (July-December 2011); 16. CENTCOM OEF/OIF Cargo Retrograde (2010-2011); 17. EUCOM Cargo Deployed/Retrograde (July-December 2011); 18. Total PACOM Cargo (July-December 2011)

19. PACOM Cargo Deployed (July-December 2011)

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

1-61251-856-7

OCLC:

912508162