Technology for the United States Navy and Marine Corps, 2000-2035: Becoming a 21st-Century Force Volume 1: Overview (1997) / Chapter Skim
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8 Implications for the Department of the Navy
8 Implications for the Department of the Navy
Pages 101-108
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It is appropriate, however, in recognition of the difficulty of the resource issue, to comment on the implications of resource management philosophy for the naval forces' evolution over the next 35 to 40 years, and for their ability to do what will be demanded of them in the security environment described earlier in this report. The greater demands that will be made of naval forces in the coming decades, together with the relative scarcity of resources, will require a new conceptual basis for the design of the 21st-century naval forces.
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In addition, most future force plans accept the need to substitute quick response, reach, and precision for numbers, by using information, speed, range, responsiveness, and weapon guidance to require fewer engagements per target and thereby allow smaller forces to accomplish military missions that have been assigned to large forces in the past. Carried further, this implies substituting efficiency, precision, and effectiveness for brute force in military operations.
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The transformation of the forces would bring with it a revised, more flexible cost structure for the naval forces, making continual modernization easier to sustain in the face of the rapidly evolving and spreading world technology base. It is apparent that benefits in these directions would increase as the rate of evolution increases from today's naval forces to those visualized for future decades.
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The naval forces must, however, take steps to ensure that the forces have the minimal capability needed for fully independent operations. This may require, for example, creating a simplified JSTARS-like capability to locate and identify opposing ground forces and targets, and the ability to locate any targets found with naval force assets in the common GPS grid and universal time.
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If modernization before that need appears remains cautious and fractionated in the budget squeeze, there will be low technical risk but a high risk of technical and operational obsolescence vis-a-vis any emerging threat. The naval forces will retain largely the same characteristics as today's forces, and the budget structure could lock in current manpower-intensive systems for a long time.
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AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO REVOLUTIONARY CAPABILITY Many explorations of new technical and operational directions are under way in the naval forces in approaches to using information in warfare, in the emerging Marine Corps Operational Maneuver From the Sea doctrine and concepts of operation, in personnel management, in ships, aircraft, submarines, weapons, and their employment and logistic support, and in joint operations and usage. These new directions, which imply radical change in the future naval forces, have already begun to create the entering wedges of capability upon which future naval forces will be built.
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The illustration demonstrates that over the time period covered by this study revolutionary change in the structure and capability of the naval forces can be achieved by a manageable evolutionary path. The resulting forces will be more capable and more adaptable to the unexpected challenges posed by an uncertain world than are today's forces, warranting the risks entailed in starting down the pathway to such extensive change.
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