Research Guides: Marine Corps Topics of Interest: Seabasing

Seabasing

Seabasing is "the deployment, assembly, command, projection, reconstitution, and reemployment of joint power from the sea without reliance on land bases within the operational area."

- JP 3-02, Amphibious Operations.

This guide serves as a starting point in highlighting important books, papers and articles on seabasing.

Articles and Reports

AULIMP: Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals: Seabasing
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Seabasing 101

What is Seabasing?
Provided by the USMC Seabasing Integration Division.
How We Sea Base?
Provided by the USMC Seabasing Integration Division.
Why Seabasing?
Provided by the USMC Seabasing Integration Division.

Online Resources

Marine Corps and other military and government resources on seabasing. Some sites are restricted.

Marine Corps Center for Lessons Learned (MCCLL)/Joint Lessons Learned Information System (JLLIS)
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(As of November 2020, the contents of the MCCLL website have been migrated to the JLLIS website. Access is still CAC-enabled, and requires that you create an account with JLLIS).
The Marine Corps Center for Lessons Learned (MCCLL) actively collects, analyzes, publishes and archives lessons learned materials to include observations, insights, lessons (OILs), trends, After Action Reports (AARs) and Marine Corps lessons learned reports. These efforts support training and planning for both exercises and operations, as well as the warfighting capability development process. MCCLL focuses on tactics, techniques and procedures of immediate importance to the operating forces thereby identifying gaps and best practices, and recommending solutions across the doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership, personnel and facilities (DOTMLPF) spectrum.
Seabasing and Alternatives for Deploying and Sustaining Ground Combat Forces
The study compares the advantages, disadvantages, and costs of eight alternative systems-five that would involve the sea basing of ground forces and three that would use aircraft to directly deliver forces and supplies. In keeping with CBO's mandate to provide objective, impartial analysis, this study makes no recommendations.

Seabasing: Featured Titles

MCWP 3-31.7 Seabasing by U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps
Publication Date: August 2006
MARADMIN for this publication. Publication is restricted dissemination and not available on public websites.
Seabasing for the Range of Military Operations by Marine Corps Combat Development Command
Publication Date: 2009
This work can be divided into three phases. The first phase ran from 1991 to 2001. For most of that era, seabasing's utility was usually described relative to war and, reactively, to what was then called military operations other than war (MOOTW). By 2000 the description of seabasing's utility expanded to include proactive engagement activities.

Working Bibliography

In Library use; remote access available for MCU students, faculty and staff.

Benes, Thomas A., USMC 2011. "Seabasing Development." Marine Corps Gazette 95 (12):36-38.
Burke, Adrian W. 2002. "The Creation of the Seabase." Marine Corps Gazette 86 (9): 82-85.
Cook, Henry B. 2004. "Sea-Basing and the Maritime Pre-Positioning Force (Future)." Military Review 84(4):54-58.
Dunne, Charles M. 2003. "Seabasing Aviation and Ground CSS: The T-AGL Logistics Ship." Marine Corps Gazette 87 (5):76-80.
Goulding, Vincent J. 2002. "Marine Corps Warfighting Lab Looks at Seabasing." Marine Corps Gazette 86 (9):80-82.
King, Douglas M.& Berry, John C.Jr. 2008. "Seabasing Expanding Access." Joint Force Quarterly: JFQ (50):46-50.
McKissock, Gary S. 2002. "Seabasing: The Maritime Intermediate Support Base." Marine Corps Gazette 86 (6):12-15.
Washingon, James W. 2005. "SEA VIKING Joint Seabasing Operations." Marine Corps Gazette 89 (3):18-20.

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