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The UK as a medium maritime power in the 21st century : logistics for influence
Argues that the UK, as a post-modern globalised state, will require means to have influence over events and opponents that threaten the UK's interests in the 21st century, and that its means is the Royal Navy. However, unlike other studies, this research emphasizes the role of logistics, especially afloat support logistics and the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. In doing so, the author rejects the current theory underpinning military operations at distance, that distance degrades capability, and posits an alternative theory, that time is the key factor, for maritime-based forces.
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Amphibious shipping shortfalls : risks and opportunities to bridge the gap
In this report, the CSIS Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies analyzes the types of capabilities necessary across the range of military operations, and compares that with the characteristics of amphibious ships, as well as those in the Combat Logistics Fleet, Maritime Prepositioning Force, and others. Resulting shortfalls in key capability areas suggest some degree of risk. The study then describes how amenable those risks may be to mitigation and some of the associated implications. This report provides a framework for policymakers to understand those areas in which alternative platforms might be most useful, where risks associated with their employment are most significant, and how readily broadening platforms beyond the uses for which they were designed might be accomplished. -- Amazon.
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Network-Centric Naval Forces
Network-Centric Naval Forces: A Transition Strategy for Enhancing Operational Capabilities is a study to advise the Department of the Navy regarding its transition strategy to achieve a network-centric naval force through technology application. This report discusses the technical underpinnings needed for a transition to networkcentric forces and capabilities.
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Naval Expeditionary Logistics
At the request of the Chief of Naval Operations, the National Research Council (NRC) conducted a study to determine the technological requirements, operational changes, and combat service support structure necessary to land and support forces ashore under the newly evolving Navy and Marine Corps doctrine. The Committee on Naval Expeditionary Logistics, operating under the auspices of the NRC's Naval Studies Board, was appointed to (1) evaluate the packaging, sealift, and distribution network and identify critical nodes and operations that affect timely insertion of fuels, ammunition, water, medical supplies, food, vehicles, and maintenance parts and tool blocks; (2) determine specific changes required to relieve these critical nodes and support forces ashore, from assault through follow-on echelonment; and (3) present implementable changes to existing support systems, and suggest the development of innovative new systems and technologies to land and sustain dispersed units from the shoreline to 200 miles inland.
In the course of its study, the committee soon learned that development of OMFTS is not yet at a stage to allow, directly, detailed answers to many of these questions. As a result, the committee addressed the questions in terms of the major logistics functions of force deployment, force sustainment, and force medical support, and the fundamental logistics issues related to each of these functions.
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Naval Combat Logistics Support System
The subject matter is the sustainability of naval forces in combat and the intimate relationships between tactics and logistics. The observation is made that it has been a long time since the United States Navy has worried about logistics in combat and that to some extent combat logistics have become 'somebody else's' responsibility. It is argued that combat logistics is inescapably the force commander's responsibility and its dimensions are sketched. Necessarily, the amount of data and calculation is extensive if an accurate picture of the combat logistics states of the force are to be maintained and predictions of future states are to be made. It is in the predictions of future states that the interactions between tactics and logistics become most apparent. The data storage and retrieval and computational aspects suggest a microprocessor-based support system. BGLCSS (battle group logistics co-ordinator support system) is a program of combat logistics data, event routines, and algorithms designed to allow the logistics co-ordinator to track and predict force combat logistics states and provide timely and meaningful insight to the force commander.
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HOMOGENEOUS COMBAT MODELS
In the beginning of the twentieth century, attempts were made to explain the dynamics of combat through mathematical models. Chase (see Fisk 1905, 1916) seems to be the first to present a model of warfare. Later, simultaneous and independent attempts were made by Lanchester (1914) and Osipov (1915) (see Helmbold 1993) to describe the combat dynamics through differential equations. Due to the logical simplicity, Lanchester models (one may be tempted to call them Chase-Lanchester-Osipov or CLO models; see Bitters 1995) provide an attractive basis for explaining the dynamics of combat and have been used extensively. A brief account of Lanchester type of equations is given in what follows:
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HETEROGENEOUS COMBAT MODELS
In the previous chapter combat models were considered in which a Blue force having B and a Red force having R identical weapons (not necessarily the same type as the Blue force weapons) engage each other. These models were called homogeneous combat models. In actual combat each side will have different types of weapons, say, infantry, armor, artillery, etc. Hence, a combat model with a Red force having m types of weapons and a Blue force having n types of weapons is closer to reality and is termed a non-homogeneous or heterogeneous combat model. We represent this as an (m,n) model. In this notation, the homogeneous combat model is a (1,1) model.
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SIMULATION OF MILITARY SYSTEMS
A system is defined as an aggregation or assemblage of objects which interact to accomplish a set of goals or objectives. The smallest indivisible component of the system is called an entity. The variables associated with the entity which determine its state are called attributes. An instantaneous occurrence that changes the state of the system is called an event. For example, a frigate fitted with air defense weapons and sensors constitutes a naval air defense system; the missile fitted on the frigate is an entity; its probability of kill, range and velocity, are the attributes; detection, acquisition, firing and kill, are the events.
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Description of an 8 MW reference wind turbine
An 8 MW wind turbine is described in terms of mass distribution, dimensions, power curve, thrust curve, maximum design load and tower configuration. This turbine has been described as part of the EU FP7 project LEANWIND in order to facilitate research into logistics and naval architecture efficiencies for future offshore wind installations. The design of this 8 MW reference wind turbine has been checked and validated by the design consultancy DNV-GL. This turbine description is intended to bridge the gap between the NREL 5 MW and DTU 10 reference turbines and thus contribute to the standardisation of research and development activities in the offshore wind energy industry.
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