Charles Koburger

Sea Power in the Twenty-First Century (eBook, PDF)

Projecting a Naval Revolution

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

As the U.S. Navy enters the twenty-first century, many of the ships, aircraft, weapons, and tactics it employed so successfully during the Cold War will no longer be cost-effective or even effective. Future battlefields will shift the locus of naval action from the high seas into littoral waters, demanding sustained operations in relatively narrow, shallow waters. Naval forces in the twenty-first century must not only meet the traditional requirements of command of the sea-ships, planes, troops, and bases-carrying out forward presence, crisis response, strategic deterrence, and sealift. They must now put these together to obtain the four key operational capabilities of littoral warfare: command, control, intelligence and surveillance, and communication; battlespace dominance; power projection; and force sustainment. The core of the new U.S. strategic concept is power projection, and it envisions naval forces directly leading Army and Air Force elements to influence events ashore, most probably in the Third World. And this navy must be cost effective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 1997
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781573568753
• Artikelnr.: 37967102

Autorenporträt

CHARLES W. KOBURGER, JR. retired from the U.S. Coast Guard as a reservist with the rank of Captain after 20 years of active duty and is now an independent consultant on maritime affairs, writing naval history as a second effort./e He has published widely on naval and other maritime subjects on both sides of the Atlantic.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations Introduction The Operational Environment Today and Tomorrow
Naval Expeditionary Forces Surface Combatants Maneuvering from the Sea In
Harm's Way Signs of the Future A Future Model Inter-Service Cooperation
Summary and Conclusion Appendixes Bibliography Index