An enormously broad topic, naval expeditionary logistics reaches from the national, and sometimes international, industrial base to our maritime forces afloat and ashore throughout the world. Moreover, since the purpose of the study is to help determine the set of capabilities that future naval forces should have, one assumes that the Navy and Marine Corps must be able to logistically support their own tactical operations, drawing help only from such national assets as strategic lift, strategic intelligence, global command and control, and global navigation aids. Given the logistics focus of this study, the committee believed that concentrating on small units had the potential to mask conditions that become problems with larger forces. In each, the committee concentrates on those aspects of future logistics operations that warrant near-term planning and analysis priority. Closing comments are given in Chapter 6 .
Supplemental information is provided in the appendixes.
1 Department of the Navy. 2 Department of the Navy. Forward . . . The Navy and Marine Corps in Regional Conflict in the 21st Century, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 6 Naval Studies Board.