| Publication |
2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Today's American navy writes prolifically about maritime strategies but has
not devoted equal attention to campaign plans or analysis that tests the strategies' viability. We illustrate herein how the operational-or campaign-level
links policy and strategy to the tactical and technological elements of war at sea.
First, we relate how the U.S. Navy reluctantly came to accept the existence of an
operational level of warfare but having done so will find it useful. Second, we describe important properties of naval operations in terms of constants, trends, and
variables in warfare at and from the sea. Third, we demonstrate how operationallevel planning would help if the Navy and the nation were to adopt six clearly
stated, twenty-first-century strategies that would serve present and future national policies better than do current strategy documents.
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