Expeditionary operations
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- Publication date
- 1998
- Topics
- United States. Marine Corps, Naval strategy, United States. Marine Corps -- Handbooks, manuals, etc, Naval strategy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Publisher
- [Washington, DC] : Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps
- Collection
- libraryofthemarinecorps; fedlink; americana
- Contributor
- Library of the Marine Corps
- Language
- English
Cover title
Shipping list no.: 98-0263-P
"16 April 1998" -- page [i]
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-145) and index
Marine Corps doctrinal publication (MCDP) 3, Expeditionary Operations, establishes doctrine for the conduct of military operations by the U.S. Marine Corps. It describes the Marine Corps as an expeditionary force-in-readiness that is manned, trained, and equipped specifically to respond quickly to a broad variety of crises and conflicts across the full range of military operations anywhere in the world. It emphasizes the naval character of Marine Corps forces ... This publication is compatible with the Marine Corps' capstone doctrinal publication, MCDP 1, Warfighting ... Where MCDP 1 describes the Marine Corps' philosophy of warfighting, this publication describes the types of operations of which Marine Corps forces must be capable." -- pages [i-ii]
1. The landscape: Chaos in the littorals. After the Cold War: the "new anarchy" ; Crises: disaster, disruption, dispute ; Fragmentation and integration ; Major regional contingency ; Smaller-scale contingencies ; Nonstate actors ; The developing world ; Population factors ; Urbanized terrain ; The importance of the sea and the littoral regions ; Weaponry ; Conclusion -- 2. The nature of expeditionary operations. National interests, crisis prevention, and crisis response ; Expeditionary operations defined and discussed ; Reasons for conducting expeditionary operations ; Sequence in projecting expeditionary forces ; Expeditionary mindset ; Naval character ; Strategic mobility: closure rate and global reach ; Operational mobility ; Operational and tactical competence ; Sustainability ; Adaptability ; Reconstitution ; Cost-effectiveness ; Conclusion -- 3. Expeditionary organizations. Naval expeditionary forces ; Marine Corps forces commands ; Marine Air-Ground Task Force ; The structure of the MAGTF ; The Marine expeditionary force ; The Marine expeditionary unit (special operations capable) ; The special purpose MAGTF ; Maritime prepositioning forces ; Air contingency forces ; Marine component commands ; Standing task force headquarters ; Conclusion -- 4. Expeditionary concepts. Operational maneuver from the sea ; Case study: the Marianas, 1944 ; Sustained operations ashore ; Case study: the Persian Gulf, 1990-1991 ; Military operations other than war ; Case study: Mogadishu, Somalia, 1991 ; Maritime prepositioning force operations ; Case study: Saudi Arabia, 1990 ; Conclusion -- Epilogue: Operation Littoral Chaos. Case study: West Africa, 2017-18 ; Conclusion
145 pages : 21 cm
Shipping list no.: 98-0263-P
"16 April 1998" -- page [i]
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-145) and index
Marine Corps doctrinal publication (MCDP) 3, Expeditionary Operations, establishes doctrine for the conduct of military operations by the U.S. Marine Corps. It describes the Marine Corps as an expeditionary force-in-readiness that is manned, trained, and equipped specifically to respond quickly to a broad variety of crises and conflicts across the full range of military operations anywhere in the world. It emphasizes the naval character of Marine Corps forces ... This publication is compatible with the Marine Corps' capstone doctrinal publication, MCDP 1, Warfighting ... Where MCDP 1 describes the Marine Corps' philosophy of warfighting, this publication describes the types of operations of which Marine Corps forces must be capable." -- pages [i-ii]
1. The landscape: Chaos in the littorals. After the Cold War: the "new anarchy" ; Crises: disaster, disruption, dispute ; Fragmentation and integration ; Major regional contingency ; Smaller-scale contingencies ; Nonstate actors ; The developing world ; Population factors ; Urbanized terrain ; The importance of the sea and the littoral regions ; Weaponry ; Conclusion -- 2. The nature of expeditionary operations. National interests, crisis prevention, and crisis response ; Expeditionary operations defined and discussed ; Reasons for conducting expeditionary operations ; Sequence in projecting expeditionary forces ; Expeditionary mindset ; Naval character ; Strategic mobility: closure rate and global reach ; Operational mobility ; Operational and tactical competence ; Sustainability ; Adaptability ; Reconstitution ; Cost-effectiveness ; Conclusion -- 3. Expeditionary organizations. Naval expeditionary forces ; Marine Corps forces commands ; Marine Air-Ground Task Force ; The structure of the MAGTF ; The Marine expeditionary force ; The Marine expeditionary unit (special operations capable) ; The special purpose MAGTF ; Maritime prepositioning forces ; Air contingency forces ; Marine component commands ; Standing task force headquarters ; Conclusion -- 4. Expeditionary concepts. Operational maneuver from the sea ; Case study: the Marianas, 1944 ; Sustained operations ashore ; Case study: the Persian Gulf, 1990-1991 ; Military operations other than war ; Case study: Mogadishu, Somalia, 1991 ; Maritime prepositioning force operations ; Case study: Saudi Arabia, 1990 ; Conclusion -- Epilogue: Operation Littoral Chaos. Case study: West Africa, 2017-18 ; Conclusion
145 pages : 21 cm
- Addeddate
- 2013-06-25 12:15:29
- Associated-names
- United States. Marine Corps
- Bib_util_no
- b10626384
- Boxid
- 3000134488
- Call number
- VE153 .M32 no.3 1998
- Camera
- Canon EOS 5D Mark II
- External-identifier
- urn:oclc:record:1045354790
- Foldoutcount
- 0
- Identifier
- expeditionaryope00unse
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t7fr1j391
- Identifier_bib
- 3000134488
- Ocr_converted
- abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.37
- Ocr_module_version
- 0.0.21
- Openlibrary_edition
- OL33163844M
- Openlibrary_work
- OL24948842W
- Page-progression
- lr
- Page_number_confidence
- 99
- Page_number_module_version
- 1.0.3
- Pages
- 166
- Possible copyright status
- The Library is unaware of any copyright restrictions for this item.
- Ppi
- 500
- Republisher_date
- 20130701224626
- Republisher_operator
- associate-veronica-romero@archive.org
- Scandate
- 20130701154500
- Scanner
- scribe11.capitolhill.archive.org
- Scanningcenter
- capitolhill
- Worldcat (source edition)
- 39294208
- Full catalog record
- MARCXML
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