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Naval Operations Concept 2010 6
systems available to U.S. naval forces. The employment of persistent
ISR systems to cue time-sensitive targeting of fast attack craft, coastal
defense cruise missiles and guided munitions systems that execute shoot
and hide tactics is an effective way to suppress and eventually eliminate
these threats. The greatest area-denial challenge in the maritime domain
remains mines. Mines are cheap, numerous, widely proliferated, and capable
of constraining maneuverability from deep water past the surf zone to the
maximum extent of the littoral. Current systems and procedures to clear
mines from the deep water through the surf zone are effective, but slow,
and in most cases require naval forces to enter the minefield. Moreover,
those forces are often subject to harassment by area-denial weapons
and fires from the shore. In the future, emerging mine countermeasure
capabilities will allow naval forces to more effectively identify and neutralize
mines without entering the mine danger area.
Combined Arms Approach to Sea Control
The Naval Service employs a combined-arms approach to achieve sea
control. Mission-tailored forces integrate sea, air, land, space, cyberspace,
and information operation capabilities employed from ships and submarines;
carrier-, amphibious ship- and land-based aircraft; ground vehicles;
and remote sites outside the theater of operations; to achieved assigned
objectives. Marine amphibious forces, Navy Expeditionary Combat
Command forces and the Coast Guard Deployable Operations Group
operate cooperatively to bridge the seams between blue, green and brown
water, the littoral, and regions further inland. Fleet Cyber Command,
Marine Forces Cyberspace Command and Coast Guard Cyber Command
conduct full spectrum computer operations in support of every element
of the combined-arms team, as well as the joint, interagency and coalition
elements that regularly augment naval force packages. The combinedarms
approach leverages the following capability advantages to achieve
sea control:
n Superior warfare systems, which provide robust integrated air and
missile defense, including ballistic missile defense; effective undersea
warfare; and flexible network-centric attack options using organic and
off-board weapons.
n Large numbers of combat ready platforms, achieved through enhanced
reliability and efficiencies in the inter-deployment training cycle.