Littoral Warfare: Strategies and Tactics for Coastal Combat Operations

By Fouad Sabry

What is Littoral Warfare

In military and naval warfare, littoral warfare is operations in and around the littoral zone, within a certain distance of shore, including surveillance, mine-clearing and support for landing operations and other types of combat shifting from water to ground, and back.

How you will benefit

(I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:

Chapter 1: Littoral warfare

Chapter 2: United States Armed Forces

Chapter 3: United States Navy SEALs

Chapter 4: Littoral combat ship

Chapter 5: United States Naval Special Warfare Command

Chapter 6: Fleet Marine Force insignia

Chapter 7: USS Freedom (LCS-1)

Chapter 8: Philippine Navy

Chapter 9: Marines

Chapter 10: Green-water navy

(II) Answering the public top questions about littoral warfare.

Who this book is for

Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Littoral Warfare.

• Language: English
• Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
• Release date: May 29, 2024

Book preview

Chapter 1: Littoral warfare

Littoral warfare refers to military and naval actions in and around the littoral zone, within a specific distance of shore, including surveillance, mine-clearing, support for landing operations, and other sorts of fighting changing from water to land, and back.

Littoral warfare is warfare in the littoral zone and its environs.

Littoral warfare has been waged for nearly as long as human societies have waged war.

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Chapter 2: United States Armed Forces

The military forces of the United States are known as the United States Armed Forces.

The U.S. Armed Forces have been crucial to American history since its establishment during the American Revolutionary War. Their triumphs in the First and Second Barbary Wars contributed to the development of a sense of national identity. They were essential to the United States' territorial development during the American Civil War. The contemporary U.S. military structure was established by the National Security Act of 1947, which was passed after World War II. The Act also established the National Security Council, the United States Air Force, and the National Military Establishment, which is led by the secretary of defense. The National Military Establishment was renamed the Department of Defense in 1949, and the cabinet-level Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force were combined to form the Department of Defense.

The Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), both federal executive departments, serve as the primary means by which military strategy is carried out. The president of the United States is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces.

In terms of personnel, the U.S. Armed Forces rank among the largest military forces. They recruit employees from a sizable pool of skilled volunteers. Although it has been utilized in the past, military conscription has not been practiced in the United States since 1973. All male citizens and residents of the United States who are between the ages of 18 and 25 must register with the Selective Service System, which retains the right to conscript them.

The U.S. Armed Forces are regarded as the most potent force in the world.

Even before the Declaration of Independence officially declared the United States to have been founded, on June 14, 1775, the Continental Army was founded, beginning the history of the U.S. Armed Forces.

In Article II of the Constitution, the president is designated as the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States, giving him or her authority over the country's armed forces.

Although it is not part of the operational chain of command, the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the highest ranking military organization in the US Armed Forces. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who serves as both the president's and the secretary of defense's primary military counselor, is in charge of it. Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff serves as their deputy. The commandant of the Marine Corps, the chief of naval operations, the chief of staff of the Air Force, the chief of space operations, and the head of the National Guard Bureau are additional members.

Unified combatant commands are combined military commands made up of personnel from various military branches, with the commanders of the combatant commands serving as the final link in the chain of command, which extends from the president to the secretary of defense. Through service component commands, each service assembles, equips, and trains its respective forces, which are ultimately delivered to the unified combatant commands. The theater special operations commands or joint force headquarters - cyber are also presented to other combatant commanders by Special Operations Command and Cyber Command. The theater special operations command is typically dual-hatted as the joint force special operations component, and Space Force components are typically dual-hatted as the joint force space component. Army components are typically dual-hatted as the joint force land component, Navy components are typically dual-hatted as the joint force maritime component, and Air Force components are typically dual-hatted as the joint force air component.

In order to support operating forces involved in planning for or carrying out military operations, including support during conflict or in the conduct of other military actions related to combating threats to U.S. national security, combat support agencies are Department of Defense organizations. This mission may not fully encapsulate the CSA's mission because it is concentrated on offering support to echelons below the CCMD level.

There are six equal military service branches that make up the United States Armed Forces. The United States Army, United States Marine Corps, United States Navy, United States Air Force, and United States Space Force are five of the branches and are grouped under the military departments of the Department of Defense. The U.S. Coast Guard is formally a part of the Department of Homeland Security, but the president or legislature may move it to the Department of the Navy, which is the civilian organization in charge of managing the coequal U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Navy. The military services, with the exception of the Coast Guard, only organize, train, and outfit forces. Operational command of non-service retained forces is the responsibility of the unified combatant commands.

Each military service has a certain duty and domain allotted to it. While the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps carry out maritime operations, the U.S. Army carries out land operations. The Marine Corps specializes in amphibious and marine littoral operations in support of the Navy. While the U.S. Space Force handles space operations, the U.S. Air Force handles air operations. The U.S. Coast Guard is distinctive in that it is both a law enforcement organization and a military department with a focus on marine operations.

The largest and most established branch of the US Armed Forces is the United States Army (USA). One million soldiers make up the Regular Army, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard, which was first founded in 1775 as the Continental Army.

The Army's five primary skill sets are:

Quick and persistent land combat

combined-arms maneuvers:

Wide-area security and combined arms maneuver

mechanized and armored operations

Airborne and aerial attack maneuvers

Special operations

Create and maintain the joint force's theater.

combine joint, national, and international power on land

The Army's thirteen designated duties include:

To defeat enemy ground troops, capture, occupy, and defend land regions, conduct swift and sustained combined arms combat operations on land in all situations and types of terrain, including complicated urban contexts.

To support combined campaigns and aid in establishing air superiority, conduct air and missile defense. The 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command, 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, 263rd Army Air and Missile Defense Command, and Army Space and Missile Defense Command are part of the Air Defense Artillery Branch of the Army that carries out this.

Conduct amphibious operations, airborne assaults, and air assaults. The development of airborne doctrine, tactics, methods, and procedures is primarily under the purview of the Army. The XVIII Airborne Corps, 11th Airborne Division, 82nd Airborne Division, 101st Airborne Division, and 173rd Airborne Brigade carry out airborne and air assault operations for the Army.

carry out civil affairs activities. The United States Army Special Activities Command, primarily under the United States Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command and the 95th Civil Affairs Brigade, conducts civil affairs operations.

Perform riverside operations.

A military administration should be first established in foreign areas while waiting for other authorities to take over this duty.

Through operations on land and in space, you can blockade enemy communications, air, and space power.

Organize logistics for joint operations and campaigns, such as the joint over-the-shore and intra-theater transportation of soldiers and equipment that must be delivered on-time and with precision. The Army Logistics Branch, which is made up of the Quartermaster Corps, Ordnance Corps, Transportation Corps, and the Army Materiel Command's Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command, is principally responsible for carrying this out.

In cooperation with other military services (mainly the United States Space Force), combatant commands (particularly United States Space Command), and other U.S. government departments and agencies, provide assistance to space operations to strengthen joint campaigns. Army Space and Missile Defense Command is in charge of conducting military space operations.

Conduct authorized civil works programs, such as those for projects to improve navigation, flood control, beach erosion control, and other developments involving water resources in the United States, its territories, and its possessions. You should also carry out any other civil activities that are required by law. The Army Corps of Engineers carries out these.

Provide air medical evacuation within the theater. The Army Medical Service Corps and Army Aviation Branch fly these missions.

Reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition should be done.

Use landline telephones for communication. The Transportation Corps and Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command are principally responsible for carrying this out.

The foundation of the service's land combat capability is the infantry branch. The M4 carbine and M249 light machine gun, which are typically carried by U.S. Army infantry, will be replaced by the XM7 rifle and XM250.

The most skilled soldiers in the Army are members of the Special Forces, also known as Green Berets because of their distinctive headgear. By operating through or alongside an underground force in a prohibited area, Special Forces engage in unconventional warfare, enabling resistance movements or insurgencies to coerce, disrupt, or overthrow governments or occupying powers. They also engage in foreign internal defense, training and supplying foreign allied military forces to fend off insurgency, subversion, terrorism, and other security threats, and security force assistance, developing the defense capabilities of friendly nations. To gather or verify information of strategic importance, more direct missions include counterinsurgency, direct action, and