Defense Science Board Task Force Report on Sea Basing
August 2003, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics. An unclassified report, which begins:
The geography of the United States, as an island power with the need to project military power across two great oceans, has made amphibious warfare a core competence in the American way of war – one that will continue to be critical in protecting U.S. national interests.
Future warfighting concepts of operations call for light, rapidly deployable, maneuver forces supported by remote fires.
