2/ Firstly, the word counts:
"Maritime" is found 232 times, but mostly in part of a list of the various domains
"Sealift" is found 9 times
3/ There is an entire chapter on the Maritime Domain:
Here are the table of contents for that chapter
4/ Early on, there is a general description of the various domains, and here is the description of the maritime domain:
5/ This section describes interdependencies among land & maritime domains:
6/ My favorite blurbs about #Sealift:
"As a general rule, once mobilized, it takes at least 30 to 45 days for most Army forces stationed within the United States to deploy to a theater when their equipment is shipped via strategic sealift"
7/ And also re #Sealift:
"Most Army equipment travels via strategic sealift. It will take weeks or months for the equipment to arrive in theater."
With my favorite anecdote about ACCESS (or lack thereof), 🇹🇷 during OEF
10/ Fascinating that US Army FM 3-0, Chapter 7 on #MaritimeDomain, includes a vignette on the British WW2 defeat by Imperial Japanese in Malaya & Singapore, as a lesson on "faulty assumptions"
"Our National Defense Strategy relies on integrated deterrence: the seamless combination of capabilities to convince potential adversaries that the costs of their hostile activities outweigh their benefits."
3/ On #IndoPacific:
"We have entered a consequential new period of American foreign policy that will demand more of the United States in the Indo-Pacific than has been asked of us since the Second World War."
2/ During RIMPAC 2022, 3rd Flt Cdr Adm Boyle "called for a centralized command-and-control structure — a standing maritime force similar to those elsewhere around the globe" ...
3/ Adm Boyle highlighed the:
⚓️"Pacific Security Maritime Exchange, a nine-nation information-sharing group"
⚓️"IndoPacific Maritime Coordination Center, one of three fusion centers in which that IndoPacom has invested in order to share data for identifying at-sea threats"
1/ #FY23NDAA Senate SASC draft #S4543:
James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (NDAA)
Some of my favorite sections, starting with IndoPacific issues:
2/ #FY23NDAA#S4543:
Sec 1072
SecDef "shall develop a Joint Concept for Competing" to "define the role of the US Armed Forces in long-term strategic competition with specific adversaries"
2/ Components will propose experiments to be conducted in near-term Joint exercises and compete for RDER funding. The Secretary will select among proposed experiments based on alignment to the Joint Warfighting Concept and potential to yield demonstrable warfighting utility.
3/ Hope someone in recommending leasing 🇯🇵US-2 #SeaPlanes for:
⚓️ Support to USMC EABO
⚓️ Contested Logistics support
⚓️Combat SAR
⚓️Illegal Fishing Patrol
⚓️ISR
⚓️ASW
2/ I jumped right to this section:
Sec 1304
REPORT ON RESOURCING UNITED STATES DEFENSE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE INDO-PACIFIC REGION AND REPORT ON ENHANCING DEFENSE COOPERATION WITH ALLIES AND PARTNERS IN THE INDO-PACIFIC.
Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility:
"a risk analysis of these new fuel storage options, and a timeline and cost analysis for establishing this storage capacity"
Independent Study Relating to Fuel Distribution Logistics across INDOPACOM