MSC transformation strategies serve as model for Sea Power 21

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Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Vern Clark's plan to revamp the Military Sealift Command's (MSC) fast supply combat ship USNS Supply service to meet 21st century national security requirements of the Sea Power 21 including projecting offensive power, establishing defenses and striving to obtain operational independence with sea bases, can benefit from MSC's proven manning models and efficiencies, and its culture of embracing new ideas.

Strategy & planning, Military Sealift Command, Planning, National security, Company business planning, United States. Navy. Military Sealift Command

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Corps fashions 'provisional units,' tighter deployment schedules

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Service planners are altering rotation schedules, shifting Marines from noncombat jobs, giving new duties to established units and considering additional reserve call-ups to meet its requirements with the current force of 178,000 active and 41,000 reserve personnel. Marine Corps are also establishing provisional units- training lesser-used combat units such as artillery battalion for infantry and military police duties.

Management dynamics, US Marine Corps, Management, Company business management, Marines, United States. Marine Corps, Navy-yards and naval stations, Naval bases

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Speed, 'jointness' not seen as key elements of U.S. win

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The United States Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute report reveals that the tactical speed in Operation Iraqi Freedom and the jointness is not the precondition for a low-causality win. Iraqi's poor leaderships, new technologies, inept marksmanship and dilapidated equipment were the main factors of the United States' success.

Iraq, Dept of the Army, Reports, Military aspects, United States. Army

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