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Chapter I
operations is to globally position forces in time to conduct campaigns and major operations
and to respond to other contingencies.
For additional information on movement and maneuver, see JP 3-0, Joint Operations.
d. Redeployment
(1) Redeployment is the transfer of deployed forces and accompanying materiel
from one OA to support another JFC’s operational requirements within a new OA or
home/demobilization station as a result of end-of-mission or rotation.
(2) Redeployment planning and execution. Similar to deployment operations,
redeployment planning decisions are based on the OE in the OA at the time of redeployment.
As already described, the redeployment process consists of four phases; redeployment
planning, pre-redeployment activities, movement, and JRSOI. The supported
geographic combatant commander (GCC) is responsible for redeployment planning in the
area of responsibility (AOR). This planning should be considered at the outset of an
operation and continually be refined as the operation matures. The individual activities
within each phase of redeployment are similar to those described in the deployment process;
however, significant differences exist during the JRSOI phase. These differences are
apparent when the force is redeploying to a new OA or to home or demobilization station.
These distinctions and the command relationships during redeployment are addressed later in
this publication.
e. Redeployment operations are the sum of activities required to plan, prepare, and
move forces and accompanying materiel from origin to destinations within a new OA or to
home station to achieve the operational status required to execute a mission or demobilize.
4. Strategic Mobility
a. Strategic mobility is the capability to deploy and sustain military forces worldwide
in support of national strategy. Beyond the intrinsic capability of US operational forces to
self-deploy, the bulk of our nation’s strategic mobility requirements are met through
common-user sealift, common-user airlift, and pre-positioned stocks, known as the strategic
mobility triad, shown in Figure I-2.
b. The Strategic Mobility Triad. Successful deployment and redeployment of forces
and capabilities in military operations depends on sufficient port throughput capacity
coupled with the availability of sufficient mobility assets to rapidly deploy operational
forces, sustain them as long as necessary to meet US military objectives, and reconstitute and
redeploy them to meet changing mission requirements or return to home and/or
demobilization stations upon completion of their mission. To meet this challenge, the United
States Transportation Command’s (USTRANSCOM’s) transportation component commands
(TCCs), Air Mobility Command (AMC), Military Sealift Command (MSC), and Military
Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC) exercise command and control
(C2) of assigned, allocated, apportioned, or chartered transportation assets for use by all
DOD elements and, as authorized, other USG departments and agencies or other approved
users. Deployment operations normally involve a combination of land (road and rail), sea
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